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India's first fusion power company takes key steps toward a private tokamak
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A doughnut that holds a star's heat: the tokamak concept behind India's first private fusion venture, for GS3
Pranos Fusion advances towards India's first private tokamak.
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What you need to know
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Bengaluru-based startup Pranos Fusion could firm up the designs of the first privately built tokamak in India in 2027.
A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped reactor that confines hot plasma with strong magnetic fields to produce energy by nuclear fusion.
ಮೂಲಗಳು: Topper IAS editorial (PIB / The Hindu / Indian Express)
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Remember these
- Pranos Fusion is a Bengaluru-based startup aiming to build India's first privately built tokamak; designs could be firmed up in 2027
- A tokamak is a doughnut-shaped (toroidal) reactor that confines hot plasma using strong magnetic fields
- Fusion releases energy by joining light nuclei such as deuterium and tritium, unlike fission, which splits heavy nuclei
- ITER, the international fusion project in France, is a tokamak-based experiment in which India is a member
- India's public fusion work includes the SST-1 tokamak at the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar
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How the exam will ask it
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- Statement: A tokamak confines plasma using strong magnetic fields in a toroidal (doughnut-shaped) chamber. (Correct)
- Statement: Nuclear fusion involves splitting heavy nuclei into lighter ones, as in present-day nuclear power plants. (Incorrect: that is fission)
- Statement: Magnetic confinement and inertial confinement are two different approaches to achieving fusion. (Correct)
ಮೇನ್ಸ್
GS3 (Science and Technology, Energy): Fusion promises abundant, low-carbon baseload power, but sustained net-energy plasma, materials and tritium breeding remain unsolved. Government-led programmes such as India's ITER participation and the Institute for Plasma Research are now joined by private start-ups, which raises the issue of regulation, funding and safety frameworks. The way forward is public-private partnership, a clear regulatory regime and steady long-term research funding alongside near-term renewables and fission.
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ಭಾರತದ ಮೊದಲ ಫ್ಯೂಷನ್ ವಿದ್ಯುತ್ ಕಂಪನಿಯು ಖಾಸಗಿಯಾಗಿ ನಿರ್ಮಿಸುವ ಟೋಕಮಾಕ್ ಯೋಜಿಸಿದೆ. ಟೋಕಮಾಕ್ ಬಿಸಿ ಪ್ಲಾಸ್ಮಾವನ್ನು ಯಾವುದರಿಂದ ಬಂಧಿಸಿ ಫ್ಯೂಷನ್ ಶಕ್ತಿ ಉತ್ಪಾದಿಸುತ್ತದೆ?
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- ಅಧಿಕ ಒತ್ತಡದ ಹಬೆ ಟರ್ಬೈನ್‌ಗಳು
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ಉತ್ತರ: A — ಟೋಕಮಾಕ್ ಎಂಬುದು ಕಾಂತೀಯ ಬಂಧನ ಸಾಧನ; ಡೋನಟ್ ಆಕಾರದ ಕಾಂತೀಯ ಕ್ಷೇತ್ರವು ಪ್ಲಾಸ್ಮಾವನ್ನು ಹಿಡಿದಿಡುತ್ತದೆ.
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