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According to Huffington Post, the
full-sized arc reactor featured in the
movie looks similar to a Tokamak
plasma containment system. The real-world
equivalent is an International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
(ITER) project, which is currently
making the largest experimental Tokamak
nuclear fusion reactor. The reactor is
designed to produce an output power of 500
megawatts. Starting the project in 2007,
several countries aim to finish the
building the ITER in France by 2019. If
the project proves successful, it will
become the largest plasma experiment in
use for physics, and a commercial
demonstration fusion power plant will
follow. Huffington Post states in regards
to how the ITER will function, “..
Basically, it mashes two isotopes of
hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, together
at such high energies that they combine
into one atom. When they fuse, the
reaction produces helium and a free
neutron. Critically, helium+neutron has
less mass than deuterium+tritium, and the
missing mass is converted to energy. That
energy can be captured as heat to run a
traditional steam-driven turbine (like any
other power plant)..”
A big difference between the ITER and Stark Industries (SI) is that the ITER has many magnetic coils on the outside of the torus containment area whereas (SI) has a viewing window. Another big difference between the ITER and SI is the fact that SI has no cooling turbines, loops, or any other traditional cooling device that a thermal reactor would require. This means that the Stark Arc Reactor, instead of creating heat then electricity, directly creates electricity. This idea directly correlates to the fact that Tony Stark, who wears a small Arc Reactor on his chest, does not die of incineration. When hearing the words “Iron Man,” a few images come to mind. One most common image is of Tony Stark with the miniature arc reactor in his chest, glowing a signature blue color. Huffington Post dubs Cherenkov radiation as the real-life double of Iron Man’s glowing circle. According to geek.com, it is "theoretically possible to create the Cherenkov glow in almost any substance that significantly slows photon propagation to allow charge particles to catch up." A similar concept of this may be why Iron Man has a glorious glow. Iron Man is still a little ahead of the game when it comes to creating the ultimate energy efficient power source, but it’s clear to see that his creations did not come from pure fiction. Maybe soon though, the creation by Tony Stark will become a reality.
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A FUSION OF IDEAS: ITER’s reactor is a
tokamak, in which the fuel is
contained in a doughnut-shaped
vessel and heated to ten times the
temperature of the Sun’s core,
forming a plasma, a hot, electricity
charged gas.
 1. VACUUM VESSEL:
A huge stainless steel container will hold the plasma and house the fusion reaction. 2. HEATING: Neutral beam injections and radio-frequency electromagnetic waves will heat the plasma to 150,000,000 *C. 3. MAGNETS: Ten thousand tonnes of superconducting magnets generating a field 200,000 times that of Earth’s magnetic field will confine and shape the plasma. 4. BLANKET: Tiles weighing up to 4 tonnes will protect the vacuum vessel and magnets from heat and neutrons. 5. DIVERTER: A series of tungsten tiles under the vacuum vessel take exhaust heat and gases away from the tokamak. 6. DIAGNOSTICS: Key experimental tools (including pressure gauges and neutron cameras) for measuring the physics of plasmas. 7. CRYOSTAT: A huge refrigerator surrounding the vacuum vessel, protecting the superconducting magnets and other equipment from heat. |
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