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I like this image even more than the one in the tweet: https://aip.scitation.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/aip/journals/content/php/2022/php.2022.29.issue

by tinco 4y ago

I like this image even more than the one in the tweet: https://aip.scitation.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/aip/journals/content/php/2022/php.2022.29.issue-6/5.0083990/20220608/images/large/5.0083990.figures.online.f3.jpeg https://aip.scitation.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/aip... It helps my layman's eyes clearly relate the trajectories of the various developmental processes of each approach. I wonder why SPARC and ITER are the only projected ones. Do the other reactors being built not have estimated yields? My favourite has long been the wendelstein, because of they way it looks and how it feels like its pathway to success might be software based. I like the way Tokamak Energy markets itself, and would have loved to see the ST25 and the ST40 in that image, but maybe they're not complete enough projects to be on there?

sam 4y ago
We only included projected values of SPARC and ITER because they're the only ones whose physics basis has been published in the peer-reviewed literature. We would certainly like to include other devices - hopefully this will encourage more teams to publish results in the literature from which we can extract the required parameters.