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

[Safriz]

^^can you elaborate on zero point?
never heard of it?

 

[pmukherjee]

@ safriz

"it was the nutrons produced during fusion.which made the reactor wall radioactive....that was the problem."
You are right, ITER scientists are still working on this problem of intense neutron bombardment damaging the reactor/containment vessel walls. I do not think that they have worked it out yet.

"was temperature the biggest barrier for nuvlear fusion?"
No, the cryogenic system is part of the heat exchange mechanism aimed at drawing away excess heat produced during the process. They claim that they will produce 10 times greater energy than needed to initiate the fusion process but this energy is not being used to produce electricity. So they have to lose the heat fast.

"india should have been better off by continuing the research of dr kashyal tilyarkhan.......who had worked extensively on bubble fusion."
Bubble fusion or sonofusion is a different field altogether. Moreover experiments conducted on bubble fusion have been far from successful. You maybe aware that tilyarkhan himself was accused of fudging his research results.

India has been involved in research in Cold Fusion in the past. It will be nice if you could input your take on the subject. There are far too many groups conducting far too many varieties of experiments all with the same goal of harnessing fusion energy.

 

[kingkobra]

seven members

European Union (EU), India, Japan,People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and the United States

 

[kingkobra]

About vacuum cold storage from wiki

The vacuum vessel is the central part of the ITER machine: a double walled steel container in which the plasma is contained by means of magnetic fields.
The ITER vacuum vessel will be the biggest fusion furnace ever built. It will be twice as large and 16 times as heavy as any previously manufactured fusion vessel: each of the nine torus shaped sectors will weigh between 390 and 430 tonnes.[48] When all the shielding and port structures are included, this adds up to a total of 5,116 tonnes. Its external diameter will measure 19.4 metres (64 ft), the internal 6.5 metres (21 ft). Once assembled, the whole structure will be 11.3 metres (37 ft) high.
The primary function of the vacuum vessel is to provide a hermetically sealed plasma container. Its main components are the main vessel, the port structures and the supporting system. The main vessel is a double walled structure with poloidal and toroidal stiffening ribs between 60 millimetres (2.4 in) thick shells to reinforce the vessel structure. These ribs also form the flow passages for the cooling water. The space between the double walls will be filled with shield structures made of stainless steel which is corrosion resistant and does not conduct heat well. The inner surfaces of the vessel will be covered with blanket modules. These modules will provide shielding from the high-energy neutrons produced by the fusion reactions and some will also be used for tritium breeding concepts.
The vacuum vessel has 18 upper, 17 equatorial and 9 lower ports that will be used for remote handling operations, diagnostic systems, neutral beam injections and vacuum pumping.

 

[AMCA]

India has been enjoying a sustaining growth platform and severe growing potential that it has now reached an altitude where no one has in its journey of mere 60 years of development has reached despite the poor government we have. As is always said, India is a Blessed land. Who could have imagined that India would be the flag bearers of a Chosen league which would write the scientific future of the world.

 

[Roybot]

The entire Vacuum Vessel is enclosed within a Cryostat, or cold box, which provides insulation for the superconducting Magnet system and other components.

The Cryostat is a large, stainless steel structure surrounding the Vacuum Vessel and superconducting Magnets, providing a super-cool, vacuum environment. It is made up of a single wall cylindrical construction, reinforced by horizontal and vertical ribs. The Cryostat is 29.3 metres tall and 28.6 metres wide.

The Cryostat has many openings, some as large as four metres in diametre, which provide access to the Vacuum Vessel for Cooling systems, Magnet feeders, auxiliary Heating, Diagnostics, and the removal of Blanket and Divertor parts. Large bellows are used between the Cryostat and the Vacuum Vessel to allow for thermal contraction and expansion in the structures. The Cryostat is completely surrounded by a concrete layer known as the bioshield. Above the Cryostat, the bioshield is two metres thick.

Cryostat

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India has been enjoying a sustaining growth platform and severe growing potential that it has now reached an altitude where no one has in its journey of mere 60 years of development has reached despite the poor government we have. As is always said, India is a Blessed land. Who could have imagined that India would be the flag bearers of a Chosen league which would write the scientific future of the world.

All the major players of the world involved in the project

China, EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, America.

 

[AMCA]

All the major players of the world involved in the project

China, EU, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, America.

I am so happy to hear this. This is indeed going to be a big success story. Its a Dream team effort in the making.

 

[sarthak]

I am totally against nuclear fusion , you are basically creating the process that powers the sun. If this goes wrong, you could actually end up blowing up the whole country from the face of the planet.

 

[Varunastra]

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?

dude someone needs to think about improving his english!!!

 

[Jango]

nuclear fusion has the potential to destroy life if not properly contained.

 

[ramu]

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?

This is by far the cheapest post and I will not even dignify it by calling the poster a troll.

1. Cheap shot at using the fridge as a vegetable storage.
2. Gets the spelling of vegetable wrong.
3. Biggest barrier for nuclear fusion questioned. One of the challenges is the temperature.
4. Why on earth should someone ridicule if the problem being solved is not the biggest ?
5. A fridge as we know will not solve the neutron problem. What is the point of asking a feel good question

 

[Screambowl]

Nuclear Fusion - YouTube

 

[angeldemon_007]

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

Yeah everybody knows and thats why the article is talking about research group. At one time in history the same was the case with nuclear fission also.

 

[fd24]

Hats off to India. First the tabloid computer at £23 and now the worlds largest fridge? Good week for you guys. Well done with your technology chaps!

 

[53fd]

Good work India!