2019
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2017.0431
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Alternatives to tokamaks: a faster-better-cheaper route to fusion energy?

Abstract: The use of thermonuclear fusion as a source for energy generation has been a goal of plasma physics for more than six decades. Its advantages are many: easy access to fuel and virtually unlimited supply; no production of greenhouse gases; and little radioactive waste produced. But heating fuel to the high temperature necessary for fusion—at least 100 million degrees Celsius—and containing it at that level has proved to be a difficult challenge. The ring-shaped magnetic confinement of tokamaks, which emerged in… Show more

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“…Although the setups are conceived for light elements, the purpose is to review the foundational ideas as cornerstones for the type energies required to the proposed theoretical fusion. Recently in [10], it has been pointed out that alternatives to the current fusion approaches are leading in the direction of inertial confinement fusion. The current techniques are based on the Tokamaks, a technology created with the sole purpose of generating heat excess.…”
Section: B Laser Based Experimental Possibilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although the setups are conceived for light elements, the purpose is to review the foundational ideas as cornerstones for the type energies required to the proposed theoretical fusion. Recently in [10], it has been pointed out that alternatives to the current fusion approaches are leading in the direction of inertial confinement fusion. The current techniques are based on the Tokamaks, a technology created with the sole purpose of generating heat excess.…”
Section: B Laser Based Experimental Possibilitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The first paper is by Dan Clery [27], whose brief was to tell us of the non-tokamak ways to fusion power, excluding the stellarator-a relative of the tokamak. It is a characteristic of new technologies that they involve risk.…”
Section: Papers In This Issuementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Los problemas previamente mencionados surgen intrínsecamente de los procesos que tienen lugar en el interior del reactor de fusión: el combustible se calienta hasta ser ionizado, formando un plasma que ha de ser confinado para que, en su seno, se produzcan una serie de colisiones entre los iones que superen las fuerzas repulsivas y alcancen la fusión nuclear. Esta reacción produce una cantidad de energía muy superior a la empleada para desencadenarla, que puede ser aprovechada para la generación de electricidad [1,7]. Sin embargo, para que todo este proceso se desarrolle de forma autosuficiente y liberando energía en exceso y, por tanto, aprovechable, deben cumplirse una serie de condiciones, gobernadas por los siguientes parámetros: la temperatura (T), el número de iones presentes en el plasma por unidad de volumen (n), y el tiempo de confinamiento, una magnitud que indica cómo se encuentra confinada la energía en el plasma (τE).…”
Section: Motivación De La Tesisunclassified
“…Para alcanzar el valor estimado por el producto triple, la alta temperatura es requisito indispensable, pero al menos uno de los otros parámetros (si no ambos) debe también tomar un valor elevado [1,[6][7][8]. Dos de los principales esquemas en desarrollo que tienen por objetivo alcanzar el valor deseado del punto triple y, por tanto, la fusión nuclear, se centran en los extremos de este criterio: maximizar el tiempo de confinamiento o maximizar la densidad de iones.…”
Section: Motivación De La Tesisunclassified
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