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T-15 (reactor)
The T-15 (or Tokamak-15) is a Russian (previously Soviet) nuclear fusion research reactor located at the Kurchatov Institute, which is based on the (Soviet-invented) tokamak design. It was the first industrial prototype fusion reactor to use superconducting magnets to control the Plasma (physics), plasma. These enormous superconducting magnets confined the plasma the reactor produced, but failed to sustain it for more than just a few seconds. Despite not being immediately applicable, this new technological advancement proved to the USSR that they were on the right path. In the original (circular cross-section with divertor, limiter) shape, a toroidal chamber design, it had a major radius of and minor radius . The T-15 achieved creating its first thermonuclear plasma in 1988 and the reactor remained operational until 1995. The plasma created was thought to solve a number of issues engineers have struggled with in the past. This combined with the USSR's desire for cheaper energy ensu ...
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Tokamak
A tokamak (; ) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field generated by external magnets to confine plasma (physics), plasma in the shape of an axially symmetrical torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement fusion, magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power. The tokamak concept is currently one of the leading candidates for a practical fusion reactor for providing minimally polluting electrical power. The proposal to use controlled thermonuclear fusion for industrial purposes and a specific scheme using thermal insulation of high-temperature plasma by an electric field was first formulated by the Soviet physicist Oleg Lavrentiev in a mid-1950 paper. In 1951, Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm modified the scheme by proposing a theoretical basis for a thermonuclear reactor, where the plasma would have the shape of a torus and be held by a magnetic field. The first tokamak was built in the Soviet Union ...
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Mikhail S
Michael is a common masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase ''mī kāʼēl'', 'Who slike-El', in Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (''Mīkhāʼēl'' ). The theophoric name is often read as a rhetorical question – "Who slike he Hebrew God El?", whose answer is "there is none like El", or "there is none as famous and powerful as God." This question is known in Latin as '' Quis ut Deus?'' Paradoxically, the name is also sometimes interpreted as, "One who is like God."Omnium Sanctorum Hiberniae"Michael - one who is like unto God"(This interpretation would be seen as heretical in some religions, but it is fairly common nonetheless.) An alternative spelling of the name is ''Micheal''. While ''Michael'' is most often a masculine name, it is also given to women, such as the actresses Michael Michele and Michael Learned, and Michael Steele, the former bassist for the Bangles. Patronymic surnames that come from Michael include '' Carmichael, DiMichele, MacMichael, McMichael, ...
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Tokamaks
A tokamak (; ) is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field generated by external magnets to confine plasma (physics), plasma in the shape of an axially symmetrical torus. The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement fusion, magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power. The tokamak concept is currently one of the leading candidates for a practical fusion reactor for providing minimally polluting electrical power. The proposal to use controlled thermonuclear fusion for industrial purposes and a specific scheme using thermal insulation of high-temperature plasma by an electric field was first formulated by the Soviet physicist Oleg Lavrentiev in a mid-1950 paper. In 1951, Andrei Sakharov and Igor Tamm modified the scheme by proposing a theoretical basis for a thermonuclear reactor, where the plasma would have the shape of a torus and be held by a magnetic field. The first tokamak was built in the Soviet Union ...
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Nuclear Fusion–fission Hybrid
Hybrid nuclear fusion–fission (hybrid nuclear power) is a proposed means of generating power by use of a combination of nuclear fusion and fission processes. The basic idea is to use high-energy fast neutrons from a fusion reactor to trigger fission in non-fissile fuels like U-238 or Th-232. Each neutron can trigger several fission events, multiplying the energy released by each fusion reaction hundreds of times. As the fission fuel is not fissile, there is no self-sustaining chain reaction from fission. This would not only make fusion designs more economical in power terms, but also be able to burn fuels that were not suitable for use in conventional fission plants, even their nuclear waste. In general terms, the hybrid is very similar in concept to the fast breeder reactor, which uses a compact high-energy fission core in place of the hybrid's fusion core. Another similar concept is the accelerator-driven subcritical reactor, which uses a particle accelerator to provide t ...
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T-15 Toroidal Winding And Poloidal Field Coils
T15 or T-15 may refer to: Aerospace * T15 (satellite), a DirecTV communications satellite * Marlin Airport, Texas, United States * Slingsby T.15 Gull III, a British glider * Soyuz T-15, a crewed spaceflight Automobiles * Chery T15, a Chinese concept car * Simca-Gordini T15, a French racing car * Triumph T15 Terrier, a motorcycle Railway stations * Minami-Sunamachi Station, Tokyo, Japan * Nangō-Jūsan-Chōme Station, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan * Nijō Station (Kyoto), Japan * Sanuki-Tsuda Station, Kagawa, Japan * Sekime-Takadono Station, Osaka, Japan * Yagoto Station, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan Weapons and armour * Safir T-15, a rifle * Škoda T-15, a prototype German-Czechoslovakian light tank * T-15 torpedo, a Soviet nuclear torpedo * T-15 Armata, a Russian infantry fighting vehicle * Vickers T-15 light tank, of the Belgian Army Other uses * T-15 (reactor), a Russian fusion research reactor * Estonian national road 15 * T15 road (Tanzania) * * Little Sw ...
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T-10 (tokamak)
T10 may refer to: Aircraft * AmeriPlanes Mitchell Wing T-10, an American ultralight aircraft * Auster T.10, a British observation aircraft * Carmier Dupoy T.10, a French sport plane * Sukhoi T-10, a Soviet prototype jet fighter Anatomy * Tenth thoracic vertebra * Thoracic spinal nerve 10 Automobiles * Suzuki T10, a motorcycle * Toyota Corona (T10), a sedan * Triumph T10, a scooter Rail and transit Lines * Île-de-France tramway Line 10, France * T10 line, of the Stockholm Metro Rolling stock * Prussian T 10, a Prussian steam locomotive * T-10, a former Federal Railroad Administration track geometry car based on the Budd SPV-2000 Stations * Bus Center-Mae Station, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan * Higashiyama Station (Kyoto), Japan * Hiketa Station, Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan * Nihombashi Station, Tokyo, Japan * Tsurumai Station, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan Sports * Abu Dhabi T10, a 10-over cricket league * T10 cricket, a 90-minute f ...
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International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
ITER (initially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ''iter'' meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy through a fusion process similar to that of the Sun. It is being built next to the Cadarache facility in southern France. Upon completion of the main reactor and first plasma, planned for 2033–2034, ITER will be the largest of more than 100 fusion reactors built since the 1950s, with six times the plasma volume of JT-60SA in Japan, the largest tokamak operating today. The long-term goal of fusion research is to generate electricity; ITER's stated purpose is scientific research, and technological demonstration of a large fusion reactor, without electricity generation. ITER's goals are to achieve enough fusion to produce 10 times as much thermal output power as thermal power absorbed by the plasma for short time periods; to demonstrate and test technologies that wo ...
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Divertor
In magnetic confinement fusion, a divertor is a magnetic field configuration which diverts the heat and particles escaped from the magnetically confined plasma to dedicated plasma-facing components, thus spatially separating the region plasma-surface interactions from the confined core (in contrast to the limited configuration). This requires establishing a separatrix-bounded magnetic configuration, typically achieved by creating poloidal field nulls (X-points) using external coils. The divertor is a critical part of magnetic confinement fusion devices, first introduced by Lyman Spitzer in the 1950s for the stellarator concept. It extracts heat and ash produced by the fusion reaction while protecting the main chamber from thermal loads, and reduces the level of plasma contamination due to sputtered impurities. In tokamaks, high confinement modes are more readily achieved in diverted configurations. At present, it is expected that future fusion power plants will generate ...
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Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in Moscow metropolitan area, its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's List of largest cities, largest cities, being the List of European cities by population within city limits, most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest List of urban areas in Europe, urban and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lan ...
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Plasma (physics)
Plasma () is a state of matter characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons. It is the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the universe, mostly in stars (including the Sun), but also dominating the rarefied intracluster medium and Outer space#Intergalactic space, intergalactic medium. Plasma can be artificially generated, for example, by heating a neutral gas or subjecting it to a strong electromagnetic field. The presence of charged particles makes plasma electrically conductive, with the dynamics of individual particles and macroscopic plasma motion governed by collective electromagnetic fields and very sensitive to externally applied fields. The response of plasma to electromagnetic fields is used in many modern devices and technologies, such as plasma display, plasma televisions or plasma etching. Depending on temperature and density, a certain number of neutral particles may also be present, in wh ...
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Superconducting
Superconductivity is a set of physical properties observed in superconductors: materials where electrical resistance vanishes and magnetic fields are expelled from the material. Unlike an ordinary metallic conductor, whose resistance decreases gradually as its temperature is lowered, even down to near absolute zero, a superconductor has a characteristic critical temperature below which the resistance drops abruptly to zero. An electric current through a loop of superconducting wire can persist indefinitely with no power source. The superconductivity phenomenon was discovered in 1911 by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Like ferromagnetism and atomic spectral lines, superconductivity is a phenomenon which can only be explained by quantum mechanics. It is characterized by the Meissner effect, the complete cancellation of the magnetic field in the interior of the superconductor during its transitions into the superconducting state. The occurrence of the Meissner effect indica ...
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