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Given that the tagline for the project is "Fusion Reactor for Rust," I'd guess that the project's name is designed to read to English speakers as "Tokamak" whil
by bertiewhykovich 11y ago
Given that the tagline for the project is "Fusion Reactor for Rust," I'd guess that the project's name is designed to read to English speakers as "Tokamak" while maintaining a "Russian flavor."
EDIT: Not being a Russian speaker, I completely misunderstood this comment -- I apologize for my blithe ignorance.
- stcredzero 11y agoRust is iron oxide. The project namers weren't thinking about astrophysics. If you fuse iron, you wind up with less energy than you had before.
- the8472 11y agoThe oxygen is perfectly fusible, at least if you're a star. Less so in foreseeable tokamak designs. Not to mention the iron hydroxide in rust.