Energy: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator: Fast Prototyping Revives a 70-Year-Old Fusion Reactor Design

IF 2.6 4区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Spectrum Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI:10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10748560

Tom Clynes

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Abstract

FOR A MACHINE that's designed to replicate a star, the world's newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. The kitchen-table-size contraption sits atop stacks of bricks in a cinder-block room at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Princeton, N.J., its parts hand-labeled in marker. The PPPL team invented this nuclear-fusion reactor, completed last year, using mainly off-the-shelf components. Its core is a glass vacuum chamber surrounded by a 3D-printed nylon shell that anchors 9,920 meticulously placed permanent rare-earth magnets. Sixteen copper-coil electromagnets resembling giant slices of pineapple wrap around the shell crosswise.

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能源现成的恒星装置：快速原型设计让 70 年前的聚变反应堆设计重获新生

对于一台设计用来复制恒星的机器来说，世界上最新的恒星仪看起来却出奇地简陋。在位于新泽西州普林斯顿的普林斯顿等离子体物理实验室（PPPL）的一间煤渣房里，这个厨房桌子大小的装置就摆放在一堆砖头上，各个部件都用记号笔手工标注。普林斯顿等离子体物理实验室团队主要使用现成的部件发明了这个核聚变反应堆，并于去年完工。它的核心是一个玻璃真空室，周围是3D打印的尼龙外壳，上面固定着9920块精心放置的永久稀土磁铁。16 个铜线圈电磁铁像巨大的菠萝片，横向缠绕在外壳上。

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IEEE Spectrum 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

CiteScore

2.50

自引率

0.00%

发文量

254

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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