Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
also known as IPP
The Wendelstein 7-X fusion device at IPP's Greifswald Branch is to demonstrate the power plant suitability of stellarator type fusion devices.
163 in this dataset
9 developers pursuing it · 10 developers pursuing it
11 organisations in DE
What these terms mean
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- Research institute
- A public or non-profit research body. Frequently operates devices it did not commercially develop.
- Operator
- Runs a facility, which may have been built by someone else.
- Fusion
- Organizations pursuing energy from nuclear fusion, and their dedicated supply chain.
- Stellarator › › Stellarator
- Confinement produced entirely by external coils twisted into complex three-dimensional shapes, with no current driven through the plasma. Far harder to build than a tokamak and inherently steady-state rather than pulsed.
- Tokamak › › Tokamak
- Doughnut-shaped magnetic confinement using a strong toroidal field plus a current driven through the plasma itself. The most-studied configuration, and the one ITER uses.
- Deuterium–deuterium
- Deuterium only. Needs far higher temperature than D-T but the fuel is abundant in seawater and no tritium breeding is required.
In Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics’s own words
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The ITER Technology & Diagnostics division hosts IPP’s technological development contributions to ITER.
Wendelstein 7-X at the Greifswald branch of IPP is a large stellarator with modular superconducting coils, which enable steady state plasma operation in order to explore the reactor relevance of this concept.
The main assembly of Wendelstein 7-X was concluded in 2014, the first plasma was produced on 10th December 2015. Scientific experiments began with the first hydrogen plasma on 3 February 2016.
The investment costs for Wendelstein 7-X from 1995 until it reached its final configuration in December 2021 amount to 460 million euros. Including the costs for the institute site in Greifswald (i.e. buildings, personnel, material and operating costs), the total sum for this period is 1.44 billion euros.
Come along for a virtual tour! The spectacular tour as 360-degree panorama takes you through the experimentation hall, then into the plasma vessel and the beam duct, through which ten-megawatt microwaves are injected into the plasma. By mouse scroll or gyro-function one can view at any angle and zoom in on minute details, start brief videos where IPP scientists talk about their work, or call up background info. The panorama was recorded by photographer Volker Steger.
Where Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics sits
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Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics is one of 9 organisations in this dataset pursuing stellarator.
It is one of 11 we hold in DE.
It operates 2 devices in this dataset, none of which carries recorded performance figures.
Related organisations
Others pursuing the same approach, then others in the same country.
Measured results
Results recorded on this operator’s devices. Design parameters — bore, field, dimensions — are excluded: a machine’s size is not something it achieved. 6 design parameters are held on the device pages.
Devices operated 2
Pursuing the same technology
Others in this dataset working on Stellarator or Tokamak.
Gauss Fusion 🇩🇪 DE 
Helical Fusion 🇯🇵 JP National Institute for Fusion Science 🇯🇵 JP 
Proxima Fusion 🇩🇪 DE 
Renaissance Fusion 🇫🇷 FR 
Stellarex Energy 🇨🇦 CA 
Thea Energy 🇺🇸 US 
Type One Energy 🇺🇸 US 
Commonwealth Fusion Systems 🇺🇸 US 
Energy Singularity 🇨🇳 CN General Atomics 🇺🇸 US Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 🇨🇳 CN Sources
A source marked operator is the subject’s own publication. That is legitimate, and it is not independent confirmation. Methodology.