A fusion reactor `` artificial sun '' that can generate 200 million plasma is scheduled to start operation in 2020
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Regarding nuclear power generation, which is expected to be the next generation of energy, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) , which aims to start operation in 2025, and the private General Fusion, which also aims to start operation in 2025 Is known. Meanwhile, China announced that the fusion reactor “ China Recirculator No. 2 M (HL-2M) ” will be put into operation in 2020, five years earlier than other international projects.
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China Is About to Fire Up Its 'Artificial Sun' in Quest for Fusion Energy
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Xinhua , China's national news agency, announced in November 2019, `` The next-generation controllable fusion research device HL-2M has been completed in June 2019, and its construction is proceeding smoothly. ' Announced that the fusion reactor, commonly known as the “artificial sun”, is expected to begin operation in 2020.
China is the temperature of the interior of the plasma also in November 2018 to reach 100 million degrees superconducting magnet tokamak fusion energy experimental reactor EAST but has started test operation of, is doing the construction of the HL-2M nuclear According to Duan Xuru, director of Industrial Southwest Physics Institute , the plasma temperature of HL-2M is expected to reach 200 million degrees. Since the temperature of the solar core is said to be about 15 million degrees, the temperature of the artificial sun in China is calculated to be about 13 times the actual temperature.
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The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority James Harrison, a senior nuclear fusion physicist of the American weekly magazine Newsweek to the pointed out, 'China's HL-2M have adopted tokamak fusion reactor , the formation of the flexible magnetic field It ’s different from other fusion reactors in what it can do. ” According to Harrison, normal fusion reactors confine high temperature plasma in a very narrow layer with a width of a few centimeters to a few millimeters, which can damage internal materials, but HL-2M is a flexible magnetic field. There is a possibility that damage can be avoided by controlling the internal plasma.
Duan told Xinhua: “The project is progressing well and we are expecting to start testing in 2020. The knowledge gained from this will not only be useful for the experiments and operations that China takes charge of in the ITER project, but also in the future. It contributes to the construction of a uniquely designed fusion reactor. '
In addition to Japan, 35 countries including EU countries, the United States, Russia, China, South Korea, and India participated in ITER, which aims to produce the world's first commercial reactor with a nuclear fusion reactor. Has been taken.
The world's first commercial-scale fusion reactor is scheduled to start operation in 2025, 35 countries including Japan cooperate-GIGAZINE
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