My trip PPPL (Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

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Asumata

Date: Tuesday, 2013/June/04, 4:15 PM | Message # 1

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

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Plasma being shaped by a magnet:

Fusion reactor (1/3):

Reactor cost is about $90,000,000. Fusions reactors are the energy of the future using the tritium and deuterium found in normal water to create fusion. These types of reactors reach temperatures of about 900,000 degrees celcius which is about 9x hotter than the center of our sun. These reactors create fusion the same way that the sun does however needs to be much much hotter then the sun due to the lack of pressure that gravitation naturally gives to the sun. Currently nobody can produce more energy then in takes to run. out of the three million kilowats used to run the reactor at PPPL only about one million kilowats was produced. A reactor named ITER located on the south of France is a program in which all the nations are working torward to make this energy source available. ITER is the first fusion reactor in which they estimation of power outage is significantly more then the power input by a factor of 5:1. Even though the reactor is not ready yet, it's success would solve the energy crysis. If we were to take an inch of water off the top of lake Irie, and ran it through ITER, it would produce the same amount of energy as if we had burned all of our current oil reserves. Fusion reactors produce no waste, are safe, produce their own fuel, and are an unlimited source of energy. We will have to wait to see ITER succeeds, if so, we would have harnessed the power of the sun. For now we just have to wait and see whether we take a great step into the future of mankind, or a step back to the drawing boards.