The date of the first start of Wendelstein 7-X

December 10 will come to life "mock alien spaceship" stellarator Wendelstein 7-X. After the end of the first phase of assembly and test machines in November, the German Atomnadzor for radiation and radiotoxic security (in terms of leakage deuterium) was obtained permission to run.





The first step in the next six months will not include any of the scientific program, we are talking exclusively about the inspection machine. It starts to be a duration of less than a second with 1 or 2 megawatts of electron cyclotron ( it ?) Heating, first to helium, then a hydrogen plasma. After six months of testing the machine will take to correct the identified stocks and uncooled diverter unit (element for heat and impurities from the plasma in the примере ITER divertor ). Then followed a year-long, has a scientific program with a hydrogen plasma high power for up to 10 seconds. After this change of notation in the divertor cooled version, and finally start the main, including 16 megawatt D + D test launches for up to half an hour.



It is interesting that on the basis of purely laboratory plasma system is already fantasizing power:



With such a value



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