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Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion

Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion

FromTheoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma


Stellarators: twisty tokamaks that could be the future of fusion

FromTheoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma

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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Jun 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Georgia Acton introduces stellarators, discusses the features that distinguish them from tokamaks, highlight the challenges we currently face, and discusses how we might overcome them. Tokamaks have been at the forefront of fusion research for the last 50 years. Despite significant improvements over this time we have yet to produce a device that is a sustainable, reliable power source capable of net energy output. In this talk Georgia hopes to convince you that stellarators are the future of fusion, capable of overcoming many of the fundamental problems of tokamaks; crucially offering a reliable and continuously operating source of fusion power that can be used to power humanity forward.
Released:
Jun 2, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (86)

Members of the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics host a morning of Theoretical Physics roughly three times a year on a Saturday morning. The mornings consist of three talks pitched to explain an area of our research to an audience familiar with physics at about the second-year undergraduate level and are open to all Oxford Alumni. Topics include Quantum Mechanics, Black Holes, Dark Matter, Plasma, Particle Accelerators and The Large Hadron Collider.