There are two types of hydrogen "burning" nuclear fusion processes in stars, namely proton-proton chain and CNO cycle. Has anyone looked at the feasibility of using the CNO cycle process in a tokamak to achieve nuclear fusion?
Dear Richard Lewis ,
Only small and medium Tokamaks for nuclear fusion experiments, mainly for plasma diagnostics and fusion engineering use hydrogen, but thus, almost always mixed with other gases (Ex: argon).
Tokamaks use mixtures with deuterium and tritium to obtain fusion results and try to reach the critical ignition point (become a reactor) which happened to JET in 1997 (Article High fusion performance from deuterium - tritium plasmas in JET
, http://aei.pitt.edu/64102/1/THE_JET_PROJECT.pdf and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2058-7058/10/11/9/pdf) and is expected with ITER (Article Design, Challenges and Key Features for the ITER Electrical ...
, https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/ITER-EDA-DS-24.pdf andArticle Overview of physics basis for ITER
) in 2025.Future Tokamak type reactors will use deuterium and tritium.
Regards,
Wiltgen