Costa Rica's nuclear fusion reactor "SCR 1" succeeds in generating high temperature plasma leading to fusion power generation

Announced that the Costa Rica Technical Research Institute (TEC) succeeded in generating high temperature plasma on June 29, 2016. This technology is necessary for the utilization of nuclear fusion expected as future clean energy, and Costa Rica became the first country in Latin America to reach this area.

TEC hace la primera descarga de plasma en un dispositivo único en Latinoamérica | Hoy en el TEC
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Costa Rica makes nuclear fusion history with plasma dischargeThe Tico Times
http://www.ticotimes.net/2016/06/30/costa-rica-celebrates-first-shot-plasma-latin-america


In November 2015, a nuclear fusion reactor · Wendelstein 7-X (Jiben · Iks) located at the Max · Planck Institute in GermanySuccessful generation of helium plasma, And in February 2016 likewise Wendelstein 7-XSuccessful generation of hydrogen plasmadoing.

However, in order to satisfy the condition of ultra-high temperature and ultra-high vacuum in order to generate plasma, a huge facility that invested a huge budget is needed. Of the devices for confining the plasma,Helical typeAccording to TEC, it is called a stellarator and it is called a stellarator. It is based on TEC (USA) (University of Wisconsin "HSX"), Japan (National Institute for Fusion Science "LHD"), Spain (CIEMAT Institute "TJ - II"), Australia "H-1NF"), Germany (Wendelstein 7-X), Costa Rica is the owner of the sixth country's stellarator.

TEC installed "Costa Rica · Stellarator 1" (SCR 1) in the premises of facilities in Carthage State. In the past 6 years I have been researching with a budget of 500,000 dollars (about 51.3 million yen), and I succeeded in plasma generation for 4.5 seconds at this time.

A movie showing plasma generation at SCR 1 is like this.

SCR1 - YouTube


According to TEC researcher Ivan Vargas, in the future the amount of energy generated by SCR 1 from 1 g of fuel will be as much as 26,000 kilowatt hours, and as soon as you can cover the power of 80 houses for a month It is.