February 3rd
when: Wednesday 3/2/2021, 14:15
where: Zoom meeting!
speaker: Ondrej Kudlacek
Title: Controlled Nuclear Fusion: Status and Challenges
abstract:
Nuclear fusion is a potential source of safe, clean, and almost inexhaustible energy for humanity. However, it is very challenging to produce fusion energy in a controlled and effective way. First of all, it is necessary to heat the fuel to temperatures in the order of hundreds millions of Kelvins in effective way. Second, as no material can withstand so high temperatures, it is required to develop strategies to isolate the hot fuel from the surrounding materials. The talk will describe basic principles of existing methods to handle these problems as well as the state of art of research in this area.