An important part of the future fusion reactor ITER can withstand at least a year of full power operations, write researchers at DIFFER and ITER in Physica Scripta.
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Een belangrijk onderdeel van de toekomstige fusiereactor ITER is bestand tegen minstens een jaar in vol bedrijf. Dat stelden onderzoekers van DIFFER en ITER vast door stukken van de reactorwand bijna twintig uur bloot te stellen aan een intens plasmabombardement in Magnum-PSI, de enige faciliteit ter wereld die daartoe in staat is.
By combining a deep understanding of plasma physics with machine learning techniques, DIFFER researchers developed a new ultrafast neural network model of the turbulent plasma in a fusion reactor.
Peter Rindt likes to think out-of-the-box. So when his Eindhoven University of Technology supervisor Niek Lopes Cardozo asked him if they could use 3D-printing to fix a long-standing problem in fusion reactors, that is what he did. Rindt designed a divertor using liquid metal contained by 3D-printed tungsten. He successfully defended his PhD thesis in July 2019.
A fresh look at photoelectrochemical cells may boost these devices' ability to convert sunlight into the clean energy carrier hydrogen.