Gujarat heart for world's biggest N-fusion reactor

[NKVD]

AHMEDABAD: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), which is the world's biggest six-country scientific collaboration to generate nuclear fusion energy in France, will get its heart from Gujarat.

The Institute of Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar, is supervising the fabrication of reactor's crucial parts — the cryostat and the vacuum vessel — at L&T's plant in Hazira near Surat.

The cryostat and the vacuum vessel of the ITER Tokamak fusion reactor is the heaviest, the largest and the most central component. The reactor intends to produce 500 megawatts of power from 50 megawatts input. The plant would start first experiments by 2020.

IPR director Dhiraj Bora, in his address at the Gujarat Science Congress held recently in Ahmedabad, said India will deliver the 30x30m cylindrical cryostat. "We have started fabricating it at L&T Hazira and it will be taken to ITER site in Cadarache in France where we have a workshop to integrate the components," he said. The first consignment will be shipped out in December.

The site is spread over 180 hectares — the size of 60 soccer fields — on which it has a 42 hectare platform to mount the nine-storey reactor.

India, through IPR, has been part of the project since 2005. The ITER Agreement was signed by China, the EU, India, Japan, S Korea, Russia and the United States. The success of the project would determine the future of the technology across the world which is desperately seeking alternatives as today 80% of requirement is met by the fast-depleting fossil fuel.

Gujarat heart for world's biggest N-fusion reactor - The Times of India

 

[jamahir]

yes, and fusion power in iter will absolutely be produced in the next 20 years.

 

[C130]

yes, and fusion power in iter will absolutely be produced in the next 20 years.

if every country and person in the world contributed 1% of their wealth into a fusion project I think it would be very possible to built a fusion reactor in the next two decades.

the payoff would be well worth it.


needs to be a 10 trillion dollar project.

 

[Georgeclark]

if every country and person in the world contributed 1% of their wealth into a fusion project I think it would be very possible to built a fusion reactor in the next two decades.

the payoff would be well worth it.


needs to be a 10 trillion dollar project.

10 trillion :O

 

[C130]

10 trillion :O

spread over 2 decades.
the Manhattan project cost well over 20 billion dollars in today's money.

you gotta spend big.

 

[Arya Desa]

yes, and fusion power in iter will absolutely be produced in the next 20 years.

I don't support ITER. In my socialist libyan jahamirya there would be no electricity cause Gaddaffi said it was capitalistic.

 

[Kloitra]

Posted yesterday, with a better, non-flashy title:
India to Supply Cylindrical Cryostat and Vacuum Vessel For World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

Other posts:
Work on track for world's first fusion reactor
India to build world's largest fridge to house fusion reactor

 

[jamahir]

I don't support ITER.

i don't support iter because better way is ethanol-based generation... ethanol can be derived from renewable bio-sources like sugarcane.

even the other methods like icf ( inertial confinement fusion ) are better than what is done at iter ( which seems to be confusing ).

it was capitalistic.

sanghi logic.

 

[Kloitra]

i don't support iter because better way is ethanol-based generation... ethanol can be derived from renewable bio-sources like sugarcane.

Not efficient in terms of resource use, isn't as environment friendly. Besides, the research is needed for future use. Think of 50 - 100 years from now.

 

[jamahir]

needs to be a 10 trillion dollar project.

but what will that money get??

Not efficient in terms of resource use,

1. sugarcane grown in "vertical farms" at locality level under socialist political system... efficient and decentralized production of resource.

2. ethanol combustion combined with "stirling engine"... efficient use of resurce... stirling is being tested by nasa, coupled to radioisotope ( non-fission ) nuclear heat source... ( Advanced Stirling radioisotope generator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ).

isn't as environment friendly.

why??

Besides, the research is needed for future use. Think of 50 - 100 years from now.

indeed... i am thinking of space missions like the "mars one" program, while travel to mars and having a continued living there.

 

[DJ Crudept]

good going.
I visited nano plant few days ago, the tour was awesome !

 

[Arya Desa]

i don't support iter because better way is ethanol-based generation... ethanol can be derived from renewable bio-sources like sugarcane.

even the other methods like icf ( inertial confinement fusion ) are better than what is done at iter ( which seems to be confusing ).
.

I don't agree with ethanol cause plants aren't socialist. Some plants are taller than others. Gaddaffi hated ethanol.

 

[Kloitra]

1. sugarcane grown in "vertical farms" at locality level under socialist political system... efficient and decentralized production of resource.

For one you need lot of fuel, compared to fusion. Resources other than fuel itself - you need processing plants etc.

2. ethanol combustion combined with "stirling engine"... efficient use of resurce... stirling is being tested by nasa, coupled to radioisotope ( non-fission ) nuclear heat source... ( Advanced Stirling radioisotope generator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ).

Efficient not in the sense of fuel efficiency or energy conversion. Fusion plant can be lot smaller, would require less resource per unit electricity as in land, man power, fuel, maintenance, etc. Resource used efficiency.

why??

You are burning something. Pure fusion plant has no harmful waste.

indeed... i am thinking of space missions like the "mars one" program, while travel to mars and having a continued living there.

Growing sugarcane in controlled environment would be more difficult than setting up a nuke plant. Besides, fusion is clean source.

 

[jamahir]

I don't agree with ethanol cause plants aren't socialist. Some plants are taller than others. Gaddaffi hated ethanol.

thanks for the laugh.

good going.
I visited nano plant few days ago, the tour was awesome !

you went at night??
through the chimney??
sucked the blood of the virgin female workers??



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@Kloitra

i am sleepy... i will reply tomorrow with quotes from some sites.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

AHMEDABAD: International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), which is the world's biggest six-country scientific collaboration to generate nuclear fusion energy in France, will get its heart from Gujarat.

The Institute of Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar, is supervising the fabrication of reactor's crucial parts — the cryostat and the vacuum vessel — at L&T's plant in Hazira near Surat.

The cryostat and the vacuum vessel of the ITER Tokamak fusion reactor is the heaviest, the largest and the most central component. The reactor intends to produce 500 megawatts of power from 50 megawatts input. The plant would start first experiments by 2020.

IPR director Dhiraj Bora, in his address at the Gujarat Science Congress held recently in Ahmedabad, said India will deliver the 30x30m cylindrical cryostat. "We have started fabricating it at L&T Hazira and it will be taken to ITER site in Cadarache in France where we have a workshop to integrate the components," he said. The first consignment will be shipped out in December.

The site is spread over 180 hectares — the size of 60 soccer fields — on which it has a 42 hectare platform to mount the nine-storey reactor.

India, through IPR, has been part of the project since 2005. The ITER Agreement was signed by China, the EU, India, Japan, S Korea, Russia and the United States. The success of the project would determine the future of the technology across the world which is desperately seeking alternatives as today 80% of requirement is met by the fast-depleting fossil fuel.

Gujarat heart for world's biggest N-fusion reactor - The Times of India

Already posted bro! -

India to Supply Cylindrical Cryostat and Vacuum Vessel For World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor