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S. Korea to supply vacuum chamber parts for int`l fusion reactor
By Lee Joon-seung
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will sign a deal to provide key vacuum chamber parts for the international fusion reactor testbed being built in France,the government said Wednesday.
The construction and transfer contract to be signed on Thursday is part of the
joint procurement arrangement by members of the International Thermonuclear
Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technology said.
"Because of the need to draw up a blueprint, come up with necessary technology
and to construct the parts, first delivery will begin in 2013 and run through
2015," a government official said. He added this is part of the 876.7 billion won
(US$603.7 million) South Korean contribution to the project.
South Korea, the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan, Russia, China and
India are ITER members that aim to build a operable fusion power testbed by 2016,
followed by 20 years of actual experiments to check the feasibility the
technology. Once this process is underway a demonstration plant that can actually
generate power is to be set up in the 2040s.
Nuclear fusion causes naturally abundant deuterium and tritium to release helium
and neutron particles that effectively allows the creation of a artificial sun on
Earth. This can then be harnessed to make limitless energy.
This process requires the building of superconducting magnets and a huge vacuum
chamber that can contain the energy-generating fusion reaction to take place. The
plasma field created in the vacuum chamber can reach temperature of 300 million
degrees Celsius, which is much higher than the core temperature of the sun that
reaches 15,000 degrees Celsius.
The ministry said that the two sectors to be provided by South Korea make up 20
percent of all construction with the rest coming from the EU.
Once built the chamber will weigh 5,000 tons, stand 11.3 meters talks and have a
outer diameter of 20 meters.
The parts are being provided because South Korea has earned recognition for
successfully building the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR)
device last year and conducting successful plasma tests in June.
KSTAR is a smaller-sized version of ITER and being used to conduct various
experiments.
yonngong@yna.co.kr
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SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korea will sign a deal to provide key vacuum chamber parts for the international fusion reactor testbed being built in France,the government said Wednesday.
The construction and transfer contract to be signed on Thursday is part of the
joint procurement arrangement by members of the International Thermonuclear
Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technology said.
"Because of the need to draw up a blueprint, come up with necessary technology
and to construct the parts, first delivery will begin in 2013 and run through
2015," a government official said. He added this is part of the 876.7 billion won
(US$603.7 million) South Korean contribution to the project.
South Korea, the European Union (EU), the United States, Japan, Russia, China and
India are ITER members that aim to build a operable fusion power testbed by 2016,
followed by 20 years of actual experiments to check the feasibility the
technology. Once this process is underway a demonstration plant that can actually
generate power is to be set up in the 2040s.
Nuclear fusion causes naturally abundant deuterium and tritium to release helium
and neutron particles that effectively allows the creation of a artificial sun on
Earth. This can then be harnessed to make limitless energy.
This process requires the building of superconducting magnets and a huge vacuum
chamber that can contain the energy-generating fusion reaction to take place. The
plasma field created in the vacuum chamber can reach temperature of 300 million
degrees Celsius, which is much higher than the core temperature of the sun that
reaches 15,000 degrees Celsius.
The ministry said that the two sectors to be provided by South Korea make up 20
percent of all construction with the rest coming from the EU.
Once built the chamber will weigh 5,000 tons, stand 11.3 meters talks and have a
outer diameter of 20 meters.
The parts are being provided because South Korea has earned recognition for
successfully building the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research (KSTAR)
device last year and conducting successful plasma tests in June.
KSTAR is a smaller-sized version of ITER and being used to conduct various
experiments.
yonngong@yna.co.kr
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