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Here's a render of the completed reactor: https://www.iter.org/doc/all/content/com/gallery/media/7%20-%20technical/tkmandplant_2016_72dpi.jpg https://www.iter.o

Here's a render of the completed reactor: https://www.iter.org/doc/all/content/com/gallery/media/7%20-%20technical/tkmandplant_2016_72dpi.jpg https://www.iter.org/doc/all/content/com/gallery/media/7%20-... Note human for size. It's all completely bespoke scientific equipment hand made for this project only. The cryostat will be the largest stainless steel vacuum vessel ever made-- all welded by hand. After welding, a substantial number of in-vessel components have to be installed by threading them through access ports, which is also quite a task: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt70mO2nQac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt70mO2nQac

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago
That will become a level in an FPS game for sure.
- lambdatronics 5y ago
  Lol, I have the same though. They'll probably need to make the equipment a little sparser though, because it gets super crowded once everything is installed. Those cut-aways don't show all the detail.
fabiospampinato 5y ago
Here's a similar picture for SPARC from wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/SPARC_2020.jpg/2560px-SPARC_2020.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/SP...
- pas 5y ago
  It still need a lot of the (same) support infrastructure. Plus ARC will be bigger than SPARC. That said building the first is a lot harder than scaling it up.
  - sbierwagen 5y ago
    I believe SPARC is a magnet demo, so it won't have tritium breeding blankets like ITER. It also has a shorter pulse time, 10 seconds vs 1000. (That's right. ITER, which will cost more than $65 billion and take decades to build, can't run continuously!)
    - ncmncm 5y ago
      Nor ever produce so much as one solitary erg to flash an LED.
      - craftinator 5y ago
        You do seem to be going on quite the hatefest of Fusion, but continue to add nothing to the conversation, including sources of information. So how much energy is in an erg?
        ncmncm 5y ago
        3000 ergs is enough to flash an LED. When you have no turbine or any other means to extract power from a heat source, none gets extracted. Do you need a source for that?

kwertyoowiyop 5y ago

That will become a level in an FPS game for sure.

lambdatronics 5y ago
Lol, I have the same though. They'll probably need to make the equipment a little sparser though, because it gets super crowded once everything is installed. Those cut-aways don't show all the detail.

fabiospampinato 5y ago

Here's a similar picture for SPARC from wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/SPARC_2020.jpg/2560px-SPARC_2020.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/SP...

pas 5y ago
It still need a lot of the (same) support infrastructure. Plus ARC will be bigger than SPARC. That said building the first is a lot harder than scaling it up.
- sbierwagen 5y ago
  I believe SPARC is a magnet demo, so it won't have tritium breeding blankets like ITER. It also has a shorter pulse time, 10 seconds vs 1000. (That's right. ITER, which will cost more than $65 billion and take decades to build, can't run continuously!)
  - ncmncm 5y ago
    Nor ever produce so much as one solitary erg to flash an LED.
    - craftinator 5y ago
      You do seem to be going on quite the hatefest of Fusion, but continue to add nothing to the conversation, including sources of information. So how much energy is in an erg?
      - ncmncm 5y ago
        3000 ergs is enough to flash an LED. When you have no turbine or any other means to extract power from a heat source, none gets extracted. Do you need a source for that?