India to build world's largest fridge to house fusion reactor

[Veeru]

India to build world's largest fridge to house fusion reactor

NEW DELHI: Indian engineers will fabricate the world's largest high-vacuum cold storage vessel for an ambitious international project to generate energy from a process that powers the sun.

The vessel called the cryostat will be home to the International Thermornuclear Experimental Reactor, the largest and the most advanced facility of its kind being built in Cadarache, France.

Scientists and engineers at the Institute of Plasma Research (IPR), Gandhinagar will manufacture this mammoth cryostat in segments at a cost of 100 million euros and ship it to France for being assembled at the site.

India is part of a seven nation consortium that is building the fusion reactor designed to produce 500 MW of output electricity with a power input of 50 MW.

ITER-India Project, a part of the IPR -- an autonomous unit of the Department of Atomic Energy, will make the 'in-kind' contributions that form India's share to the ITER project.

The procurement arrangement for the cryostat was signed recently by ITER-India.

"The cryostat is very crucial to the ITER experiment.It houses the fusion reactor in its entirety, including support to all internal systems," Shishir Deshpande, Project Director, ITER-India, said.

India to build world's largest fridge to house fusion reactor - The Economic Times

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Go India go, sky is not the limit

 

[A.Muqeet khan]

wow i am impressed

 

[Safriz]

soon we will see the fridge being used for vagitable storage.


was temperature the biggest barrier for nuvlear fusion?
i think not...it was the nutrons produced during fusion.which made the reactor wall radioactive....that was the problem.
will that be solved by the fridge?

 

[T90TankGuy]

bloody good news , nice to see us investing in R and D .

 

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we will talk when 'to build' in title changes to 'built'

 

[angeldemon_007]

India is part of a seven nation consortium that is building the fusion reactor designed to produce 500 MW of output electricity with a power input of 50 MW.

Thats great...if its succesful it will change the whole game in civil nuclear technology. Good thing is India is part of almost all major development in the field of civil nuclear tech.

 

[Screambowl]

fusion reaction is near to impossible to control for a long time with the technology we have.

 

[Safriz]

i would like to read arguments about how a fridge will help in containing fusion?

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india should have been better off by continuing the research of dr kashyal tilyarkhan.......who had worked extensively on bubble fusion.

 

[EastWest]

i would like to read arguments about how a fridge will help in containing fusion?

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india should have been better off by continuing the research of dr kashyal tilyarkhan.......who had worked extensively on bubble fusion.

May be they should appoint u..seems like u know more than Indian scientists..

 

[Firemaster]

May be they should appoint u..seems like u know more than Indian scientists..

Its nothing but jealousy inside him

Go India Go

 

[Shinigami]

i would like to read arguments about how a fridge will help in containing fusion?

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india should have been better off by continuing the research of dr kashyal tilyarkhan.......who had worked extensively on bubble fusion.

whats bubble fusion?

 

[Safriz]

May be they should appoint u..seems like u know more than Indian scientists..

yeah i know a bit...now jog off.

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same old indian jantaa friendly journalism..
cryogenic chamber is fridge and not a single paragraob on how its gona help in the research a/d how its gona be hellful.in sustaining fusion.
an article written by ignorant for ignorants...
no wonder i am asking some questions.

 

[IND151]

luck to India!!!!!

 

[SpArK]

Slow and steady to the top..

Congrats..

 

[OrionHunter]

Let's not jump the gun just yet! Because....

1. Not able to show net energy gain: The researchers who are working on the fusion reaction have not been able to contain the reaction for long to get a net energy gain.

3. No breakthrough: Since no breakthrough has been reached, most of the countries researching on fusion power are phasing out of the research.


By 2040 when the ITER is ready, there would perhaps be just India and France to hold this horrendously expensive baby! And if it fails, close to half a trillion dollars would be down the sink hole!

We need to spend the money on 'zero point' energy systems instead, which means the production of unlimited energy from gravity.