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ITER won't produce any stable power at all, so they most likely mean something like "A single run of ITER will consume about half a gram of hydrogen while havin
by pieter 15y ago
ITER won't produce any stable power at all, so they most likely mean something like "A single run of ITER will consume about half a gram of hydrogen while having a peak output of 500MW (for a few seconds).
- mrsebastian 15y agoYeah, the plan for ITER is to produce 500MW over 1,000 seconds, with an input power of 50MW (and 0.5 grams of deuterium-tritium fuel). The current record is, like, 10 seconds and no one has broken even on input/output power... Edit: Ah, actually the current record is less than 1 second: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Background http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Background