Mit tests unique approach to fusion power

Fred F.

An MIT team has successfully tested a novel reactor that could chart a new path toward nuclear fusion.

After 10 years of design, construction and testing, the reactor achieved full operation for the first time last November.

The new reactor, called the Levitated Dipole Experiment, or LDX, reproduces the conditions necessary for fusion by imitating the kind of magnetic field that surrounds the planets Earth and Jupiter. A joint project by MIT and Columbia University, it consists of a supercooled, superconducting magnet about the size and shape of a large truck tire. When the reactor is in operation, this half-ton magnet is levitated inside a huge vacuum chamber, using another powerful magnet above the chamber to hold it aloft.

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Fred F.

De LDX website van het MIT geeft meer informatie via diverse links in de text.

Jan van de Velde

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