DYNA JOURNAL ENGINEERING

Key words:

energía, fusión, iter, ciemat

Article type:

PERSPECTIVAS / PERSPECTIVES

Section:

PERSPECTIVES

Nuclear fusion has all the ingredients that a definitive solution to the energy problem would require: it is safe, environmentally friendly, uses an abundant fuel distributed throughout the planet and can be developed on a large scale, being able to meet the present and future needs of humanity, including some that are currently being overlooked, such as the massive production of drinking water and food or the large-scale recycling of raw materials. However, these advantages have been overshadowed by the intrinsic difficulty of the process: an energy-efficient fusion reaction requires keeping the fuel at temperatures of hundreds of millions of degrees Celsius, a problem on which the scientific community has been working for decades.