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Russia, Troitzk

IGNITOR
Experimental Compact Tokamak Project

DEVELOPING

 

IGNITOR is a part of a line of research that began with the Alcator machine at MIT in the 1970's which pioneered the high magnetic field approach to plasma magnetic confinement, and continued with the Alcator C/C-Mod at MIT and the FT/FTU series of experiments. The idea for the first D-T ignition experiment proposed on the basis of existing technologies and knowledge of plasma physics was formulated at about the same time as the first results of the Alcator experiment were produced. Subsequent developments have confirmed the fact that high magnetic fields combined with an optimised compact geometry offer, at present, the only path to achieving ignition, when both plasma energetic and stability are taken under consideration. The approach involving the combination of appropriate geometry and high magnetic fields also allows a possible development path to tritium-poor, reduced-neutron-production fusion, which could yield interesting kinds of fusion reactors.


Commissioning: TBD

 

 

PRESENTATION CONTACT US OFFICIAL WEB-SITE

National Research Centre “Kurchatov Institute”

http://eng.nrcki.ru/

SCIENTIFIC DOMAINS

Plasma physics

Key words: Thermal plasma, High energy plasma

 

 

CURRENT CHALLENGES

 

When the «IGNITOR» project is implemented, it is expected that Russia and Italy will possess the new technology of controlled thermonuclear fusion and thermonuclear energy, powerful sources of cyclical neutrons, new structural, radiation-resistant and electrotechnical technological materials, robotics, control systems for physical and technological management, and new technological applications for the industrial sector of the economy. In the course of implementing the «IGNITOR» project it is planned to create an educational center for training young specialists in the field of controlled thermonuclear fusion and high-tech solutions.

 

PROSPECTIVES

 

Ignitor is a compact fusion reactor based on the magnetic confinement of high energy plasmas. It is the first experiment proposed and designed to achieve ignition in a fusion reacting plasma.


Ignitor will provide the scientific community with the essential understanding of the physics of fusion burning plasmas, as well as the conditions needed to achieve a controlled, self-sustaining reaction.


This is a necessary step towards demonstrating that a fusion reactor can produce net power, therefore harnessing the attractive, sustainable energy resource that is fusion.

 

 

PARTNERS

MIT Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment (ENEA)

PUBLICATIONS

  1.  https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/russia/national-research-center-kurchatov-institute-nrc-kurchatov-institute/513906c934d6b65e6a000bbc

CONTACTS






ignition@psfc.mit.edu