IGNITOR

IGNITOR is the Italian name for a planned tokamak device, developed by ENEA. As of 2018, the device has not been constructed.

Started in 1977 by Prof. Bruno Coppi at MIT, IGNITOR based on the 1970s Alcator machine at MIT which pioneered the high magnetic field approach to plasma magnetic confinement, continued with the Alcator C/C-Mod at MIT and the FT/FTU series of experiments.[1] It was initially proposed to be built “in the area of the former Caorso nuclear power station”. The currently intended location is at Troitsk near Moscow.

Compared to the ITER international project, IGNITOR is smaller. IGNITOR is designed to produce approximately 100 MW of fusion power (and ITER to produce ~500 MW fusion power). As a result ITER reactor is some 19,000 tons in weight while the IGNITOR is only 500 tons in weight.

Progress on construction

Some full size prototype components have been built in Italy.[6] As of 2018, construction of IGNITOR in Russia has not commenced.[7]

See also
  • List of plasma (physics) articles

References
  1. Dati Camera dei Deputati. Jan 2009 Italian ministerial reply
  2. Feresin, Emiliano (2010). "Fusion reactor aims to rival ITER". Nature. doi:10.1038/news.2010.214.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-13. Retrieved 2010-07-01.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. Nuclear power in Italy, Berlusconi:"Start work within three years"
  5. The Russian-Italian IGNITOR Tokamak Project: Design and status of implementation (2017)
  6. Fact sheet (by MIT, pre-2014)
  7. Mikhail, Subbotin Leonidovich; Gostev, Alexander; Anashkin, Igor; Belov, Alexander; Levin, Igor (2019). "Status and tasks of TRINITI site infrastructure modernization for the Ignitor project". Fusion Engineering and Design. 146: 866–869. doi:10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.01.101. ISSN 0920-3796.
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