Essay: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Magnetic Fusion Power Plant,Physical Review Letters

当前位置： X-MOL 学术 › Phys. Rev. Lett. › 论文详情

Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)

Essay: Overcoming the Obstacles to a Magnetic Fusion Power Plant
Physical Review Letters ( IF 8.1 ) Pub Date : 2023-05-31 , DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.220001
Ambrogio Fasoli ₁

Affiliation

Fusion occurs when light nuclei combine to form heavier nuclei. The energy released in this process powers the stars and can provide humankind with a safe, sustainable, and clean source of baseload electricity, a valuable tool in the fight against climate change. To overcome the Coulomb repulsion of like-charged nuclei, fusion reactions necessitate temperatures of tens of millions of degrees or thermal energies of tens of keV, at which matter exists only in the form of plasma. Plasma is an ionized state of matter that is rare on Earth but characterizes most of the visible universe. The quest for fusion energy is thus intrinsically associated with plasma physics. In this Essay, I lay out my view of the challenges on the path to fusion power plants. As these need to be sizable and inevitably complex, large-scale collaborative enterprises are required, involving not only international cooperation but also private-public industrial partnerships. We focus on magnetic fusion, in particular on the tokamak configuration, relevant to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the largest fusion device to be built in the world.

中文翻译：

论文：克服磁聚变发电厂的障碍

当轻原子核结合形成较重原子核时，就会发生聚变。这一过程中释放的能量为恒星提供动力，可以为人类提供安全、可持续和清洁的基本负荷电力来源，这是应对气候变化的宝贵工具。为了克服同电荷核的库仑斥力，聚变反应需要数千万度的温度或数十keV的热能，在此条件下物质仅以等离子体的形式存在。等离子体是一种电离态的物质，在地球上很少见，但却是大多数可见宇宙的特征。因此，对聚变能的探索本质上与等离子体物理学相关。在这篇文章中，我阐述了我对聚变发电厂道路上的挑战的看法。由于这些需要很大并且不可避免地复杂，需要大规模的合作企业，不仅涉及国际合作，还涉及公私工业伙伴关系。我们专注于磁聚变，特别是与国际热核实验反应堆（ITER）（世界上将建造的最大聚变装置）相关的托卡马克装置。

更新日期：2023-05-31

点击分享查看原文

点击收藏

阅读更多本刊最新论文本刊介绍/投稿指南11