The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) is concerned with investigating the principles underlying a power plant, which – like the sun – will produce energy from the fusion of light atomic nuclei.
IPP, KIT, the University of Stuttgart and Thales are developing 2-megawatt gyrotrons and methods for the reliable transmission of microwave beams of this intensity. The new technology will be used in the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment and lays the foundations for future fusion power plants. The German Federal Ministry of Research is funding the project with 6 million euros.
Materials for future fusion power plants are to be developed at the Garching Research Campus. As part of a new federal programme, several research groups are pooling their expertise.
The record funding marks an important milestone for Alpha, a demonstration facility intended to be built in Germany as a precursor to a fusion power plant.
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