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AFAIK you can’t operate a tokamak continuously, only pulsed. A stellarator like Wendelstein 7-X looks like a much more promising design.
by pantalaimon 6y ago
AFAIK you can’t operate a tokamak continuously, only pulsed.
A stellarator like Wendelstein 7-X looks like a much more promising design.
- willis936 6y agoI know. I work at the first MHD optimized stellarator :) That doesn’t mean backing out of ITER 15 years ago would have been a good idea. It would be an even worse idea to back out of it now.
- pfdietz 6y agoStellarators also have ruinously low volumetric power density, so they're not any less economically dead than tokamaks.
- mikhailfranco 6y agoSo ITER is an iterator design :)