And it could be the key to limitless energy.
That magnet is so strong that its American manufacturer claims it can lift an aircraft carrier. When it is fully assembled it will be almost 60 feet tall and 14 feet in diameter, and it could be the key to providing practically limitless energy via nuclear fusion.Nuclear fusion essentially utilizes the same reaction seen in the Sun and stars to produce energy.
That's why scientists are developing incredibly power-efficient and powerful magnets. The less power these magnets use, the closer the scientists get to achieving"net energy" from nuclear fusion. With this in mind, US-based General Atomics sent a part of its"central solenoid" superconducting magnet from San Diego to France this summer.
"Each completion of a major first-of-a-kind component — such as the central solenoid’s first module — increases our confidence that we can complete the complex engineering of the full machine," said ITER’s spokesman Laban Coblentz. The magnet includes coils weighing 250,000 pounds .ITER is now thought to be 75 percent complete and the scientists behind the project have set a goal for starting up the reactor by 2026.
their first operational fusion power plant, called ARC, online in the early 2030s. Firstly, they will have to utilize their magnet in an experimental Tokamak fusion reactor called SPARC. Much in the same fashion, ITER will not be used commercially — instead, it serves as an experiment aimed at proving the viability of commercial nuclear fusion.
The ITER project is an international collaboration funded by the governments of most of Europe, as well as the United States, Russia, China, Japan, India, and South Korea. If it is a success, all of these countries will benefit from the intellectual property generated throughout the experiments.
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