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Crazymechanic
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Hi I have a question , now in fusion reactors like a tokamak design and also in others , if they use say the deuterium tritium mixture as fusion fuel which ends up in some released binding energy , alpha particles, a energetic neutron etc. Now the neutron and alpha particles an d all other stuff tends to either escape , hit the walls cause heat or heat the plasma etc , ok now let's assume a fusion reactor is up and running , now after some time of fusion helium as the end product of deuterium and tritium fusion builds up , and hence the fusion reactor is not capable of fusing helium it just builds up and because the plasma (atleast in tokamak configuration ) is confined with a magnetic field and as we know a magnetic field can trap particles with charge helium has protons and electrons so it is also trapped by the magnetic field ,
so the question is how do they get rid of the helium once it has started to build up ?
Now they could stop the fusion and refuel the reactor chamber but that wouldn't be practical I guess so what is the way they plan on doing it ?
so the question is how do they get rid of the helium once it has started to build up ?
Now they could stop the fusion and refuel the reactor chamber but that wouldn't be practical I guess so what is the way they plan on doing it ?