Applied Magnetics - Nuclear Fusion

本研究计划主要对磁约束和磁化聚变概念反应堆中的磁场和等离子体进行建模和测量。将探索使用紧凑型环形喷射器产生足以限制热等离子体的磁场，并将其注入托卡马克聚变反应堆或作为反应堆本身。这项工作将基于申请人在这类设备以及使用磁场检查坎杜(裂变)反应堆和其他同轴导电结构(如石油和天然气工业中使用的管道)中的部件以确保其结构完整性的经验。事实上，无损评估应用和核聚变应用都基于相似的基本物理和技术，尽管磁场强度和能量密度有很大不同。该研究计划建立在申请人以前在这些领域的经验和专业知识的基础上，并纳入了其他机构的工业和学术合作伙伴，以促进这些技术的进步和培训高素质的人员。加拿大最近表示，它准备在2018年与热核实验堆签署谅解备忘录，并在2020年签署合作协议，重新加入受控核聚变社区。ITER是世界领先的托卡马克聚变反应堆实验，目前正在法国南部建设中。与热核实验堆的谅解备忘录将有助于为加拿大核部门的机构和公司确定具体的技术合作领域，如聚变燃料技术。这将大大有助于确保加拿大技术和企业有机会参与热核实验堆项目。最近，加拿大政府宣布将通过战略创新基金向伯纳比的General Fusion投资近5000万美元。General Fusion是加拿大核聚变研究的领先者，建立在加拿大在等离子喷射器技术方面的长期专业知识基础上。最近的这些发展表明，有希望的迹象表明，加拿大将在核聚变技术的某些方面重新发挥其世界领先者的作用；这些方面与本研究计划密切相关。申请人在总体核聚变装置方面有相当丰富的经验，曾与加拿大萨斯喀彻温省大学等离子体物理实验室仅存的托卡马克反应堆小组合作，还与瑞典的Extrp-T2R反场箍缩装置合作，最近与日本东京日本大学的等离子体物理实验室合作。申请人还拥有等离子喷射器技术方面的经验，并曾与萨斯喀彻温省大学的等离子体物理实验室和General Fusion进行过合作。申请者将在这种经验的基础上建立拟议的研究计划。

This research program focuses on the modeling and measurement of the magnetic fields and plasma in both magnetic confinement and magnetized target fusion concept reactors. The use of compact toroid injectors to produce magnetic fields sufficient to confine hot plasma and inject it into a tokamak fusion reactor or to serve as a reactor in its own right will be explored. This work will build on the applicant's experience both with these types of devices as well as with the use of magnetic fields to inspect components in Candu (fission) reactors and in other coaxial conducting structures (such as pipelines used in the oil and gas industries) to ensure their structural integrity. In fact, both the non-destructive evaluation application and the nuclear fusion application are based on similar fundamental physics and technology albeit at considerably different magnetic field strengths and energy densities. This research program builds on the applicant's previous experience and expertise in these areas, and incorporates industrial and academic partners at other institutions, both for the advancement of these technologies and for the training of highly qualified personnel. Canada has recently signalled that it is prepared to rejoin the controlled nuclear fusion community by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with ITER in 2018 and a cooperation agreement in 2020. ITER is the world's leading tokamak fusion reactor experiment, currently under construction in the south of France. The MOU with ITER will facilitate the identification of specific areas of technical cooperation, such as fusion fueling technologies, for Canadian institutions and corporations in the nuclear sector. This will go a long way to ensuring that Canadian technologies and businesses have the opportunity to participate in the ITER project. Even more recently, the Canadian government has announced that it is investing nearly $50 million in Burnaby's General Fusion through the Strategic Innovation Fund. General Fusion is Canada's leader in nuclear fusion research, building on Canada's long-held expertise in plasma injector technology. These recent developments signal promising indications that Canada is set to reprise its role as a world leader in certain aspects of nuclear fusion technology; aspects that this research program is strongly aligned with. The applicant has considerable experience working on nuclear fusion devices in general, having collaborated with Canada's only remaining tokamak reactor group at the University of Saskatchewan's Plasma Physics Laboratory, and also with Sweden's EXTRAP-T2R reversed field pinch device, and most recently with the Plasma Physics Laboratory at Nihon University in Tokyo Japan. The applicant also has experience on plasma injector technology and has collaborated both with the University of Saskatchewan's Plasma Physics Laboratory and with General Fusion. It is this experience on which the applicant will build the proposed research program.