Applied Magnetics - Nuclear Fusion

应用磁学 - 核聚变

• 批准号: RGPIN-2021-02543
• 负责人: Morelli, Jordan
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: Queen's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=763252
• 关键词: Applied; Magnetics; Nuclear; Fusion

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.

该研究项目的重点是磁约束和磁化靶聚变概念反应堆中磁场和等离子体的建模和测量。将探索使用紧凑的环形注入器来产生足以约束热等离子体并将其注入托卡马克聚变反应堆或作为反应堆本身的磁场。这项工作将借鉴申请人使用这类装置以及使用磁场检查Candu（裂变）反应堆和其他同轴传导结构（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类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，并结合了其他机构的工业和学术合作伙伴，以促进这些技术的发展并培养高素质的人才。加拿大最近表示，它准备重新加入受控核聚变社区，于2018年与ITER签署谅解备忘录，并于2020年签署合作协议。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。与热核实验堆签订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技术合作的具体领域，如聚变燃料技术。这将大大有助于确保加拿大的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通用聚变公司投资近5000万美元。通用聚变公司是加拿大核聚变研究领域的领导者，建立在加拿大在等离子体注入器技术方面的长期专业知识基础上。这些最近的发展标志着有希望的迹象表明，加拿大将在核聚变技术的某些方面重新发挥其作为世界领导者的作用;这一研究计划与之密切相关。申请人在一般核聚变装置方面有相当丰富的工作经验，曾与加拿大萨斯喀彻温大学等离子体物理实验室仅存的托卡马克反应堆组、瑞典EXTRAP-T2 R反向场箍缩装置以及最近与日本东京日本大学等离子体物理实验室合作。申请人还拥有等离子体注入器技术方面的经验，并与萨斯喀彻温大学等离子体物理实验室和通用聚变公司合作。这是申请人将建立拟议的研究计划的经验。