In 2023, ITER decided to switch the material of the reactor’s inner wall from beryllium to, you guessed it, tungsten. ITER’s ...

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Specialists at JSC NIIEFA and MISIS have developed a composite of tungsten ... first wall of the proposed TRT tokamak reactor, "which are subject to weaker heat flows". JSC NIIEFA completed the ...

“The tungsten wall environment is much more challenging ... “Possible Types of the Fusion Reactor, Reactor Physics and ...

Now, a new and compact fusion reactor in Spain—the SMall Aspect Ratio Tokamak, or SMART—is further experimenting with negative triangularity at the Plasma Science and Fusion Technology Laboratory of ...

In fact, as neutrons are the main conduit by which energy leaves a fusion reactor, the wall must actually do its best to absorb as many damaging neutrons as possible and convert them to heat ...

Additionally, the impact of reactor materials on performance has been a focus of recent studies. Investigations into the first wall materials of fusion reactors have revealed that different ...

For example, such as data on the noble gases argon, krypton, and xenon, on the likely wall material ... current and future fusion experiments, the modelling of tungsten in fusion plasma, and the ...