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The challenges of nuclear fusion reactor
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Abstract
Energy shortage is one of nonnegligible problems nowadays. Even since the twenty centuries, the achievement of fission reactor has proved that nuclear energy is a powerful source. However, fission reaction could cause radiation hazard if operation error happens. Nuclear fusion can provide more clean energy. This paper discusses nuclear fusion and two typical models of fusion reactor, inertial confinement fusion reactor and tokamak, and their properties. Fusion reactors use deuterium and tritium to fuse heavier nucleus and release energy. With -distribution, deuterium-tritium fusion reactivity can be boosted at relatively low temperature. Furthermore, fusion reactor has initial success. The more energy can be created than energy used to ignition. To solve nuclear fuel problem, continue ignition progress problem, possibly achieving controllable fusion reaction. The improvements which this paper mentioned perhaps allow to extend the application context of fusion reactor.
Keywords
nuclear fusion; thermonuclear fusion; fusion reactor, plasma.
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the 2023 International Conference on Mathematical Physics and Computational Simulation
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-133-9
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-134-6
- Published Date
- 17 November 2023
- Series
- Theoretical and Natural Science
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-8818
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-8826
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-8818/11/20230387
- Copyright
- 17 November 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited