Wendelstein 7-X First Launch Date

On December 10, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator will revive the “mock-up of the alien spacecraft.” After the end of the first stage of assembly and testing in November of the machine, the German atomic inspection for radiation and radiotoxic safety (in terms of deuterium leaks) was given permission to launch.




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The first stage in the next six months will not include any scientific program; we are talking exclusively about checking the machine. These will be starts of less than a second with 1 or 2 megawatts of electron-cyclotron ( what is this ?) Heating, first on helium, then on hydrogen plasma. After six months of testing, the machine will go to fix the identified jambs and install an uncooled divertor (an element for removing heat and dirt from the plasma, for example, the ITER divertor ). Then a year-long, already scientific, program with a high-power hydrogen plasma for up to 10 seconds will follow. After that, the diverter will be switched to the cooled version, and the main thing will finally start, including 16 megawatt D + D test runs lasting up to half an hour.



Interestingly, on the basis of this purely laboratory plasma setup, power plants are already fantasizing:



With such a cost