Bloomberg Businessweek Europe - November 04, 2019

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Bloomberg Businessweek ○ The New Economy November 4, 2019

DIAGRAM:

CULHAM

CENTRE

FOR

FUSION

ENERGY

Deuterium

Helium

Energy

Tritium

Neutron

How ITER plans to achieve fusion

● Magnets, lasers,

and particle

beams heat a

gas containing

two forms of

hydrogen,

deuterium and

tritium, creating

plasma.

● Magnetic

fields compress

the plasma,

forcing the atoms

together to raise

the odds of

collisions.

● A collision

produces a helium

atom, a neutron,

and a release of

energy back into

the plasma.

● Neutrons

emerge from

the plasma and

slam into the

container walls,

heating water to

make steam that

powers electricity-

producing

turbines.

⊳ Diagram of PF6’s final assembly

on a wall in Hefei, China.

⊳ Engineers

perform final tests

on PF6 in Hefei.

66

Bloomberg Businessweek ○ The New Economy November 4, 2019

DIAGRAM:

CULHAM

CENTRE

FOR

FUSION

ENERGY

Deuterium

Helium

Energy

Tritium

Neutron

How ITER plans to achieve fusion

● Magnets, lasers,

and particle

beams heat a

gas containing

two forms of

hydrogen,

deuterium and

tritium, creating

plasma.

● Magnetic

fields compress

the plasma,

forcing the atoms

together to raise

the odds of

collisions.

● A collision

produces a helium

atom, a neutron,

and a release of

energy back into

the plasma.

● Neutrons

emerge from

the plasma and

slam into the

container walls,

heating water to

make steam that

powers electricity-

producing

turbines.

⊳ Diagram of PF6’s final assembly

on a wall in Hefei, China.

⊳ Engineers

perform final tests

on PF6 in Hefei.