Prof. Bernhard Unterberg "Hotter than the Sun"

On November 3, Prof. Bernhard Unterberg will give a lecture on "Hotter than the Sun" as part of the "All Plasma" lecture series. This will take place at Blue Square starting at 18:00. Interested parties are welcome to attend!
A new primary energy source modeled on our sun - to realize this vision, plasmas with extreme temperatures of 150 million degrees Celsius must be confined. This is already possible today with the help of magnetic fields, and now fusion researchers are building the fusion experiment "ITER" (lat. the way), in which 500 MW of fusion power will be generated for the first time.
In this lecture, we will explain the physical principles of fusion in magnetically confined high-temperature plasmas and what challenges have to be overcome on the way to a fusion reactor - especially with regard to the wall materials, which have to withstand the highest stresses in the fusion reactor.