The "Omega Tau"-podcast does have an episode about superconductivity where they interview a superconductor engineer from ITER [1]. A section of the podcast is a

The "Omega Tau"-podcast does have an episode about superconductivity where they interview a superconductor engineer from ITER [1]. A section of the podcast is about "Quench Protection", which relates to what occurs when the superconductor looses its superconductivity and the energy needs to be removed from the system as fast as possible before it melts. From the abstract of "Capacitor bank for Fast Discharge Unit of iter facility" [2]: > In case of failure, in particular quench in a superconducting coil, rather fast and safe energy discharge from the magnetic system is provided by FDU, which breaks the coil supply loop and provides energy dissipation in high energy resistors. The ITER FDU should interrupt currents up to 70 kA with a voltage up to 10 kV. There are also some slides on the web from CERN about quench protection at the LHC [3] with photos and diagrams in it. The podcast also has several episodes on fusion "157 – Fusion at ITER" [4] and "312 – The Wendelstein 7-X Fusion Experiment" [5] (and more linked in the descriptions of those episodes). On a very separate topic, it also has a good one about weather forecasting "326 – Weather Forecasting at the ECMWF" [6] [1] https://omegataupodcast.net/285-superconductivity/ https://omegataupodcast.net/285-superconductivity/ [2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6191678 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6191678 [3] https://indico.cern.ch/event/194284/contribution/34/attachments/281522/393603/TenKate_-_CAS_-Handout-Quench-Erice-2103.pdf https://indico.cern.ch/event/194284/contribution/34/attachme... [4] https://omegataupodcast.net/157-fusion-at-iter/ https://omegataupodcast.net/157-fusion-at-iter/ [5] https://omegataupodcast.net/312-the-wendelstein-7-x-fusion-experiment/ https://omegataupodcast.net/312-the-wendelstein-7-x-fusion-e... [6] https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-ecmwf/ https://omegataupodcast.net/326-weather-forecasting-at-the-e...