India Achieves Major Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Research by Confining Plasma in SST-1 Tokamak

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India plasma research centre promises sun-like energy​

21 April 2015
By Rebecca Northfield

The Sun: toasty​

A research institute in India claims to have confined plasma, which could mean a major breakthrough in energy generation.

Researchers at the Institute of Plasma Research (IPR) in Ahmedabad, Gujarat say they have successfully confined the fourth state of matter in a Steady State Super Conducting Tokamak (SST-1), a development similar to making sun-like energy in a controlled environment.

The Sun, which is Earth's most vital source of energy, is a flawless spherical ball of hot plasma with internal convective motion and generates a magnetic field like a dynamo process.

IPR conducted a fusion experiment by heating the plasma inside a Tokamak, which in turn was used to restrict the plasma by generating a magnetic field.

The Institute's director, Dhiraj Bora, said: “We have got a breakthrough in confining plasma many times during our experiments. We have produced and confined the high temperature plasma from hydrogen with the help of superconducting magnets inside the machine [Tokamak].

“It is similar to creating sun-like energy inside a laboratory.”

A microwave current is passed to keep the plasma hot and to confine it inside a Tokamak, Mr Bora said.

He added that a current of the order of 70,000A is passed and plasma is heated to 200 to 300 million degrees. In such process, the plasma gets confined inside the Tokamak and through that heat energy can be generated.

According to Mr Bora, the group would like to heat plasma further and therefore make it possible to confine it for longer periods of time. In theory, the heat could be extracted in the form of energy and be connected to turbines.

He said: “Confining plasma is necessary for creating such an environment to simulate conditions for fusion reactions, similar to which takes place inside the Sun.

“About 5000 MW of thermal power can be produced by using just 50 MW of electricity.”

The IPR is an autonomous physics research institute that has been involved in experiments such as the Tokamak and confining plasma for about 25 years.

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Brilliant news duse

Controlled nuclear fusion for commercial energy production isn't possible in the near future. We have just taken some baby steps towards it - The first commercial demonstration fusion power plant, named DEMO, which is proposed to follow on from the ITER project will start its first phase of operation not before 2033.

Whereas much has achieved concerning commercial energy production from Thorium power plants. Thorium reactors are pretty much both economically feasible as well a super-safe in terms of operation - One ton of Thorium can produce same energy as 200 tons of Uranium, or 3,500,000 tons of coal and India has the largest Thorium reserves in the world amounting to 846,000 tons.

A “super-safe” nuclear reactor because it does not require any external water or electricity for a month for cooling the red hot core in case of an accident - It would also mean there is much less danger from a meltdown - the thorium plant won't use a material that can be weaponised. Thorium is also more abundant than uranium so it will be cheaper and easier to supply.

Our AHWR has been designed to tackle simultaneous extreme events like station black out, multiple system black out, loss of coolant, reactor temperature crossing 1,000 degrees Celsius in the absence of cooling and core meltdown. Essentially, it can handle an accident without any external help. The water storage is enough for one month. No electricity is needed to run the pumps as the heat is taken out naturally. The safety analysis of AHWR has identified an exhaustive list of 55 causes of accidents, which are unlikely to cause any disruption in the functioning of this futuristic nuclear power plant.

The construction on our first 300 MW prototype AHWR is scheduled to start in 2016 - Later, the first megawatt of electricity would be be generated by 2025. Though our first indigenously designed 500 MW prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) at Kalpakkam will be operation by September this year - it would be a major milestone as well - (A fast breeder reactor is one that breeds more material for a nuclear fission reaction than it consumes. The PFBR will be fueled by a blend of plutonium and uranium oxide, called MOX fuel.)

Great news but we should speed up the process 9 years is a very long time

On topic experiment,

A little experiment, for those who wants to make plasma at home..
You can create plasma from grapes, cut a grape in half, but don't cut all the way thru. Cut enough that the skin on the other side is attached. Dry the grape with a tissue, then peal a skin off another grape, dry it and place it on top of the first grape. Make sure it's dry.
Now the fun part, place the grape in a microwave n turn it on for 20 second.
Watch small bursts of plasma come out.

Very cool.

U wanna control the plasma, place a thin plastic container on top of grape. Its plasma, it will burn a hole in the container, it will have a smell to it with or without container.

Go ahead amaze urself.

Time waste lagh raha hai muje toh BC

 

[SR-91]

plus we have good thorium reserves as well ranging from 25-30% of worlds known reserves...

Brilliant news duse



Great news but we should speed up the process 9 years is a very long time



Time waste lagh raha hai muje toh BC

What does ur "BC" stand for? Hope ur not cursing me

 

[bloo]

Awesome achievement.

Next up Iron Man suit................

 

[Echo_419]

What does ur "BC" stand for? Hope ur not cursing me

Ham dellhi wale toh wise hi baat karte hai BC

 

[SR-91]

Ham dellhi wale toh wise hi baat karte hai BC

Aur hum New Yorker hai, we dont take shit from anybody.
Teek hai Matherchod.

 

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Great news but we should speed up the process 9 years is a very long time

It will the world's first thorium based nuclear reactor ever built - whose preliminary design was passed last year only - It's a totally unique design and the first of its own kind which can operate without an operator for 120 days and is safe and secure enough to be set up in populated cities, like - Mumbai or Delhi, "within the city". - it will take its time - BARC has made it very clear that "To generate a single megawatt of electricity from this world's first thorium based reactor it would take at least 7-8 years."

The AHWR is a vertical pressure tube type reactor cooled by boiling light water under natural circulation. The unique feature of this design is a large tank of water on top of the primary containment of vessel, called the gravity-driven water pool (GDWP). This reservoir is designed to perform several passive safety functions.

The latest AHWR design incorporates several passive safety features. These include: Core heat removal through natural circulation; direct injection of emergency core coolant system (ECCS) water in fuel; and the availability of a large inventory of borated water in overhead gravity-driven water pool (GDWP) to facilitate sustenance of core decay heat removal. The emergency core cooling system (ECCS) injection and containment cooling can act (SCRAM) without invoking any active systems or operator action.

The reactor also incorporates advanced technologies, together with several proven positive features of Indian pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWRs). These features include pressure tube type design, low pressure moderator, on-power refueling, diverse fast acting shut-down systems, and availability of a large low temperature heat sink around the reactor core.

India designs World's first Thorium based Nuclear Reactor

Awesome achievement.

Next up Iron Man suit................

We should! India to Restart Cold Fusion Research Programme?

Cold Fusion Battery = Arc Reactor

Aur hum New Yorker hai, we dont take shit from anybody.
Teek hai Matherchod.

I guess BC = Bakhchod - Urban Dictionary: Bakchod

Maybe you mistook it for something else?

Anyways - its none of our concern! carry on gentlemen!

 

[Mr.Nair]

India will be the biggest achiever in the world, success to make a thorium based reactor as we have enough deposit,safe and environmental friendly as of its waste compared to uranium.