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April 2017
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UK's newest fusion reactor has been turned on for the first time and
has officially achieved first plasma. The reactor aims to produce a
record-breaking plasma temperature of 100 million degrees for a
privately-funded venture. This is seven times hotter than the centre
of the Sun and the temperature necessary for controlled fusion.
Oxford,
England-based Tokamak Energy said today that with its ST40 reactor
"up and running", the next steps are to complete the
commissioning and installation of the full set of magnetic coils
which are crucial to reaching the temperatures required for fusion.
This will allow the ST40 to produce a plasma temperature of
15 million degrees - as hot as the centre of the Sun - in the autumn
of this year.
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The ST40 fusion reactor
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avid Kingham, CEO of Tokamak Energy, said: "Today is an important day for fusion energy development in the UK, and the world. We are unveiling the first world-class controlled fusion device to have been designed, built and operated by a private venture. The ST40 is a machine that will show fusion temperatures - 100 million degrees - are possible in compact, cost-effective reactors. This will allow fusion power to be achieved in years, not decades."
He
added: "We will still need significant investment, many academic
and industrial collaborations, dedicated and creative engineers and
scientists, and an excellent supply chain. Our approach continues to
be to break the journey down into a series of engineering challenges,
raising additional investment on reaching each new milestone. We are
already half-way to the goal of fusion energy; with hard work, we
will deliver fusion power at commercial scale by 2030."
Tokamak
Energy grew out of Culham Laboratory, home to JET - the world's most
powerful tokamak - and the world's leading centre for magnetic fusion
energy research. Tokamak Energy's technology revolves around high
temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets, which allow for relatively
low-power and small-size devices, but high performance and
potentially widespread commercial deployment.
The
world's first tokamak with exclusively HTS magnets - the ST25 HTS,
Tokamak Energy's second reactor - demonstrated 29 hours continuous
plasma during the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition in London
in 2015 - a world record.
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Tokamak Energy turns on ST40 fusion reactor - World Nuclear News: The UK's newest fusion reactor has been turned on for the first time and has officially achieved first plasma. The reactor aims to produce a record-breaking plasma temperature of 100 million degrees for a privately-funded venture. This is seven times hotter than the centre of the Sun and the temperature necessary for controlled fusion.
