JET Fusion Reactor

Inside the JET (Joint European Tokamak) fusion reactor. Source- http://www.jet.efda.org/

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[marcos13af]

Good video,interesting!!!Maybe this model of reactor can be used in my experiments...

Do you believe that 50% of all Matter can be converted in pure electricity?!This is what you can call of Advanced Technology,this is the Lost Link or Alien Technology if you prefer...Crazy thing,but it is real...

[stevebd1]

Thanks for your positive comments. Regarding your statement of converting 50% of all matter into electricity, considering that at the current cutting edge of nuclear power, the fission process only converts approx. 0.15% of its uranium fuel into energy and fusion converts approx. 0.6% of its tritium/deuterium fuel, 50% sounds a little out of reach in the near future.

[panzarw]

@stevebd1 Hi just saw this reply and I"M Shocked to see that only tenths of a percents are harnessed.

why its not a high number?

or is it like so that if it was 100% then it would be used up in 1 sec, but if a lower % then it would last longer?

and where did you get those numbers?

[stevebd1]

@panzarw Actually the tritium/deuterium reaction works out at a little under 0.4% (all figures in e-27 kg)-

Deuterium nucleus (3.344) plus tritium nucleus (5.008) means an initial mass of 8.352. Fusion results in a Helium nucleus (6.646) and a neutron (1.675), a final mass of 8.321, the difference is 0.031 (multiply by c^2 for joules), this being 0.37% of the initial mass. The proton/proton reaction in the sun is marginally better with 0.44% of the initial mass being converted into energy.

[koalorka1]

European technology FTW!

[donkisiko]

@Hypergalactica

The heat within the plasma is contained by the magnetic field so it hardly if at all touches the plasma facing walls. What this means is that you can still freely use superconducting material, however it would be ideal if so much energy didn't have to be put into cooling the damn thing ^^; that's where most of the energy is wasted! Maybe one day eh?

[Jordan25071995]

This is actually the hottest place in the solar system :D

[sunNbass]

i didnt understood why Helium3 is so importent for this?

[etjr92]

@int1901

Yes it did happen, and if my source is correct the camera was behind quartz shielding :)

[mustanglead]

This place is just 20 miles up the road from me and it's surprising how many people around here have no idea of its existence.

[int1901]

so did the fusion actually happened in this experiment? How did they put the camera in ?

[routhoula]

how much does it cost to fire this up??

[Johnuwine]

Science, yeah!

[Upperfiend]

@Perokeznik The plasma is purple because the fuel used is a mix of hydrogen isotopes - Deutirium and Tritium. Hydrogen burns with a reddish purple colour in the huge clouds of it in the universe. The Deuterons and Tritons are simply showing their characteristic behaviour.

Hope that helps ^^