Controlled Fusion: Magnetic and Inertial, Promises and Pitfalls

IF 0.3 Q4 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC International Journal of Power and Energy Systems Pub Date : 2020-12-22 DOI:10.11648/J.EPES.20200906.12
K. Touryan
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As with biomass, hydro, solar and wind power, fusion power can also generate clean energy, using deuterium, an isotope of hydrogen, abundantly available in our oceans. Our sun uses hydrogen in a fusion process to generate power. It has been demonstrated that fusion power can be generated on earth, under carefully controlled conditions using deuterium and tritium instead of hydrogen. There are two fundamental approaches to controlled fusion: magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) first proposed at Princeton University in 1951, and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) that followed shortly thereafter, first proposed at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in 1970. Progress made on magnetic fusion led to the planning and construction of ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), expected to be completed in 2035. In this article, we explain the processes necessary to generate fusion power through MCF and ICF. Unlike nuclear power, as a practical means to generate electricity, controlled fusion has presented the technical/scientific community with a plethora of very difficult challenges. It is only recently, after decades of intense research in many laboratories worldwide, that we have begun to see devices being built on a fusion reactor scale and hence the design of ITER. The challenges are many but require patience and perseverance.
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受控核聚变:磁性与惯性,希望与陷阱
与生物质能、水力、太阳能和风能一样,核聚变发电也可以利用氘(氢的一种同位素)产生清洁能源,氘在我们的海洋中储量丰富。我们的太阳在聚变过程中使用氢来发电。已经证明,在地球上,在严格控制的条件下,用氘和氚代替氢可以产生核聚变。控制核聚变有两种基本方法:1951年普林斯顿大学首先提出的磁约束核聚变(MCF),以及随后不久由劳伦斯利弗莫尔实验室于1970年首次提出的惯性约束核聚变(ICF)。在磁聚变方面取得的进展导致了ITER(国际热核实验反应堆)的规划和建设,预计将于2035年完成。在本文中,我们解释了通过MCF和ICF产生核聚变功率所需的过程。与核能不同,作为一种实用的发电手段,受控核聚变给技术/科学界带来了大量非常困难的挑战。直到最近,在世界各地的许多实验室进行了数十年的深入研究之后,我们才开始看到以聚变反应堆规模建造的设备,并因此设计出了ITER。挑战很多,但需要耐心和毅力。
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International Journal of Power and Energy Systems
International Journal of Power and Energy Systems ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC-
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