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> The facility could see plasma generated in the machine - a notional start to operations - shortly after the assembly phase ends in 2025. So you're saying it'

> The facility could see plasma generated in the machine - a notional start to operations - shortly after the assembly phase ends in 2025. So you're saying it's... 5 years away?

qwertox 6y ago
The generation of plasma is approximately 5 years away. Around 2035 the first experiments with tritium will me made, at least that's the expectation. And even then ITER isn't designed to be a usable reactor, it's just a prototype. They intend to build a real one afterwards, and even that one will be a demonstration reactor.
- Normille 6y ago
  With all this talk of the colossal ITER project merely being a warm-up for the even bigger DEMO one to follow which, in its turn will be but a pre-cursor to the real thing, I can't help being reminded of Douglas Adams's 'Deep Thought' “There is no problem,” said Deep Thought with magnificent ringing tones. “I am simply the second greatest computer in the Universe of Space and Time.” “But the second?” insisted Lunkwill. “Why do you keep saying the second? You’re surely not thinking of the Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller are you? Or the Pondermatic? Or the . . .” Contemptuous lights flashed across the computer’s console. “I spare not a single unit of thought on these cybernetic simpletons!” he boomed. “I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me!” Fook was losing patience. He pushed his notebook aside and muttered, “I think this is getting needlessly messianic.” “You know nothing of future time,” pronounced Deep Thought, “and yet in my teeming circuitry I can navigate the infinite delta streams of future probability and see that there must one day come a computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my fate eventually to design.”

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> The facility could see plasma generated in the machine - a notional start to operations - shortly after the assembly phase ends in 2025. So you're saying it'

by mbgerring 6y ago

> The facility could see plasma generated in the machine - a notional start to operations - shortly after the assembly phase ends in 2025. So you're saying it's... 5 years away?

qwertox 6y ago
The generation of plasma is approximately 5 years away. Around 2035 the first experiments with tritium will me made, at least that's the expectation. And even then ITER isn't designed to be a usable reactor, it's just a prototype. They intend to build a real one afterwards, and even that one will be a demonstration reactor.
- Normille 6y ago
  With all this talk of the colossal ITER project merely being a warm-up for the even bigger DEMO one to follow which, in its turn will be but a pre-cursor to the real thing, I can't help being reminded of Douglas Adams's 'Deep Thought' “There is no problem,” said Deep Thought with magnificent ringing tones. “I am simply the second greatest computer in the Universe of Space and Time.” “But the second?” insisted Lunkwill. “Why do you keep saying the second? You’re surely not thinking of the Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller are you? Or the Pondermatic? Or the . . .” Contemptuous lights flashed across the computer’s console. “I spare not a single unit of thought on these cybernetic simpletons!” he boomed. “I speak of none but the computer that is to come after me!” Fook was losing patience. He pushed his notebook aside and muttered, “I think this is getting needlessly messianic.” “You know nothing of future time,” pronounced Deep Thought, “and yet in my teeming circuitry I can navigate the infinite delta streams of future probability and see that there must one day come a computer whose merest operational parameters I am not worthy to calculate, but which it will be my fate eventually to design.”