{"id":189101,"date":"2024-05-10T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/max-plancks-elise-reaches-record-values-for-iter-plasma-heating"},"modified":"2024-05-10T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:30:24","slug":"max-plancks-elise-reaches-record-values-for-iter-plasma-heating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/max-plancks-elise-reaches-record-values-for-iter-plasma-heating","title":{"rendered":"Max Planck\u2019s ELISE reaches record values for ITER plasma heating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/max-plancks-elise-reaches-record-values-for-iter-plasma-heating.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To do this, hydrogen ions are first generated, extremely accelerated in an electric field, and then neutralized to enter in the magnetic cage of the ITER tokamak where the plasma is confined. Such a powerful NBI heating\u2014two particle beams are to deliver 16.5 megawatts each\u2014has never been built before.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the Max Planck ELISE experiments is to generate a hydrogen ion beam with a reliably high current density and demonstrate quasicontinuous operation. The ion source of ELISE is half the size of the ion source for ITER.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means<\/strong>: The record ion current density means that ELISE has already achieved the ITER target, even though only a maximum of 75 percent of the high-frequency power available at ITER is available to generate the ion source plasma at the experimental testing facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To do this, hydrogen ions are first generated, extremely accelerated in an electric field, and then neutralized to enter in the magnetic cage of the ITER tokamak where the plasma is confined. Such a powerful NBI heating\u2014two particle beams are to deliver 16.5 megawatts each\u2014has never been built before. The aim of the Max Planck [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}