bis - ITER, chronicle of a probable failure

1 ITER Chronicle of a probable failure Jean-Pierre Petit Ex-director of research at the CNRS Plasma physicist, specialist in MHD ITER is the first stage of a gigantic project costing 19 billion euros which is just waiting for funding before it starts. 2 From Phd of Andrew Thornton (jan 2011), working on the MAST tokamak, Culham, page 14 : The consequences of disruptions in the next generation of tokamaks are severe, the consequences of a disruption in a power plant tokamak would be catastrophic. Few people know the basic principles of the machines which, starting from the first ITER machine, are supposed to result in electricity generation using fusion as an energy source. The image above represents a thermal energy generator which, after 60 years of Research and Development, should result in a nuclear electricity generator using energy given off by the fusion of two isotopes of hydrogen; deuterium and tritium. The schema of this fusion is as follows In order for this nuclear reaction to take place, temperatures of 100 million degrees have to be reached, which means that the thermal agitation speed of the hydrogen isotope nuclei must reach 1000 Km/s. An environment brought to such a temperature could not be contained in a material wall.