Mechanical assessment of the supports for the torodial field coils of a Tokamak

Abstract

Nowadays, the energy consumption by the industry and the world population is in continuously increase. Although there are currently some investigations and researches of renewable energies and its storage, it is probable that they will not be enough to cover the actual consumption and we will need a different energy source. Nowadays, this different source comes from the fossil fuels, however, it is being working in a future in which the alternative could be the nuclear energy. This is due because the continuous use fossil fuels (limited on Earth), with their related CO2 emissions are destroying our planet. On the other hand, the nuclear fusion reactions generate very danger wastes that can be disintegrated in about 50 years, a time that can seem very long, but irrelevant if we compare with the disintegration of other materials used by the humans as the plastic or the glass. A nuclear fusion reaction is the combination of nuclei of small elements to form a new bigger one under controlled conditions and get power gain from this action. This power generated is much more (about million times) than the energy obtained by combining the same elements chemically. The cause of this energy release is because the final mass of the element is less than the sum of the components. This difference is, therefore, converted to energy as described by Einstein’s equation.

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