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Our World With Fusion

The document discusses plasma physics and the development of fusion as a new scientific discipline in the 1960s. Plasma makes up 99% of all observable matter and reaching temperatures of 100 million degrees is required to overcome nuclear repulsion. Understanding plasma is essential for creating fusion, which requires simultaneously keeping the plasma temperature high, confined in volume, and preventing heat loss.

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Our World With Fusion

The document discusses plasma physics and the development of fusion as a new scientific discipline in the 1960s. Plasma makes up 99% of all observable matter and reaching temperatures of 100 million degrees is required to overcome nuclear repulsion. Understanding plasma is essential for creating fusion, which requires simultaneously keeping the plasma temperature high, confined in volume, and preventing heat loss.

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OUR WORLD WITH

FUSION

NISSI ABIGAIL H. CILLO


PLASMA IS THE
MOST COMMON
STATE OF MATTER
IN THE UNIVERSE.
IT MAKES UP 99%
OF ALL
OBSERVABLE
MATTER.

100 million degrees are


required to overcome the
repulsion between nucleii.
Inside a deuterium-tritium
fusion reactor matter enters
the state of plasma.
m2

IGNITION:
CREATING A
SELF-
1
keep its
temperature
SUSTAINING high

2
FUSION
REACTION
In order to start a
fusion reaction you keep the
have to plasma
simultaneously: confined in
volume

Understanding
plasma physics is
essential for creating
3
prevent it
fusion. from
losing heat 10
EUROfusion, CC BY 4.0, www.euro-fusion.org
Fusion Plasma Physics, a New Scientific
Discipline, was born in the 1960s
 Theory of Fusion Plasmas
 Energy Principle developed in mid-50s became a powerful tool for assessing
macro-stability of various configurations
 Resistive macro-instabilities
 Linear stability analyses for idealized geometries revealed a plethora of
microinstabilities with the potential to cause anomalous diffusion Trieste School
 Neoclassical diffusion developed by Sagdeev and Galeev
 Wave propagation became basis for RF heating

 Experimental Progress (some examples)


 Most confinement results were were dominated by instabilities and ~ Bohm
diffusion
 Stabilization of interchange instability by Min|B| in mirror - Ioffe
 Stabilization of interchange in a torus by Min<B> in multipoles - Ohkawa/Kerst
 Quiescent period in Zeta due to strong magnetic shear in self organized state
 Confinement gradually increased from 1 t B to 5-10 tB for low temp plasmas
 Landau Damping demonstrated
Stabilization of MHD Interchange by Geometry
(minimum |B|) in a Mirror Machine
Increasing
Bmultipole Well Formed

1.0 X30

tE
ms

0.1

Increasing Bmultipole

 IOFFE IAEA Salzburg 1961, J Nuc Energy Pt C 7, p 501 1965


THANK YOU!!!!

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