State of fusion

Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen

State of fusion

Gieljan de Vries

FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen

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Energy

use

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More people – more energy demand

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Energy projection 1980 — 2100

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Fusion - energy for the future

Fire 2.0Heat without

CO2

Large scale

Compact machine

Safe and renewable

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Fusion reaction — pushing nuclei together

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Fusion fuel

Deuterium

Tritium

Lithium

sea water

billions of years worth

???get it from...

mining - 3000 years

sea water – 30,000 years

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Fusion – lighting the reaction

Heart of the sun:

15 miljoen degrees

enormous pressure

On Earth

150 million degrees

Heat with microwave power!

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Keeping in the heat – plasma reacts to magnets

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Keeping in the heat with magnetic fields

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Work horse of fusion – the tokamak

Tokamak (1959) magnetic

confinement

250 built

JET (Oxford, UK) fusion record in

1996

16 MW produced

...25 MW used

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Fusion in action

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Building the future

ITER

ITER (2019) Successor of JET

World wide cooperation

Large EU share

Fusion power 50 MW use

500 MW production!

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Future fusion power plant: DEMO

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When will we have fusion?

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Thanks for your attention!

Any questions?

g.devries@rijnhuizen.nl

www.rijnhuizen.nl

www.fusie-energie.nl