Brit fusion magnets set for US gamma ray bombardment test
UK fusion company Tokamak Energy claims to have made a breakthrough in fusion magnets – and is prepared to test its technology at a US gamma ray facility in the desert.has developed magnet technology it hopes will be able to withstand the electromagnetic bombardment from a fusion reaction while being capable of holding reaction in place.
Nuclear fusion relies on combining lighter chemical elements into heavier ones, releasing unprecedented weight-for-weight energy compared with fission and chemical reactions. During the process, engineers need to hold hydrogen fuel in place with powerful magnets. If the process is ever to be industrialized, these magnets must also be resistant to the powerful gamma rays fusion reactions emit.
At its Oxford headquarters, Tokamak Energy, which is collaborating with the UK government's nuclear fusion program, has built a specialist gamma radiation cryostat system, designed around a vacuum device which insulates the magnets from fusion energy. The system is now set to be disassembled, shipped, and rebuilt at the Gamma Irradiation Facility based at the US Department of Energy's Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Tokamak Energy said Sandia was one of the few places in the world capable of housing the system while exposing the company's superconducting magnets to gamma radiation comparable with the expected emissions of a fusion power plant.
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