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!
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