Success Stories

At the Max-Planck Institute for Plasmaphysics in Greifswald (Germany), the new generation of superconducting stellarator (WENDELSTEIN 7-X) is under construction and currently is the world's largest and the most advanced Stellarator experiment. This project has been given preferential support by the Association EURATOM and is considered the foundation for a future fusion reactorstellarator apparatus. However, there are some key problems for this configuration, including impurity transport and surface electromagnetic waves effect on the charged particles motion.

The STCU Project #2313, "Impurity transport and electromagnetic waves in the plasma periphery of a HELIAS reactor configuration and WENDELSTEIN 7-X" created a close collaboration with Drs. Friderich Wagner and Horst Wobig from Max-Planck Institute and the scientists of V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. The project, funded by the European Union, addresses key scientific considerations in thermomolecular fusion: the transport phenomenon in plasma, plasma confining and plasma heating processes.

This collaboration will continue under STCU Project #3685 "Impurity transport in 3D magnetic field including ergodic effects for the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X and Tokamaks" funded by the European Union at the latest board.