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My father worked on the ITER project for many years. This article goes some way to express the shear scale of this project, it's absolutely vast. When I was a
by benjamta 13y ago
My father worked on the ITER project for many years. This article goes some way to express the shear scale of this project, it's absolutely vast.
When I was a lot younger I was taken on a tour of JET (http://www.efda.org/jet/ http://www.efda.org/jet/) and was overawed with the size of it. ITER is an order of magnitude bigger.
The machine that follows ITER is where things get really interesting. Called DEMO, it's still in the planning phase - but will provide a template for future commercial fusion power generation. They're talking about possibly putting fusion generated power into the grid by 2040. Truly exciting stuff.
- XorNot 13y agoMy favorite memory of being in France a half year back was visiting the ITER site. Partly because we misjudged how to get there and trekked 3km up the highway from the bus stop in the middle of nowhere to get to it. It was still just a hole in the ground then - they were getting ready to put in the seismic dampeners for the base layer of the Tokamak structure. Since then I've had it liked on Facebook so I can see the progress bit by bit.
- benjamta 13y agoIt's fascinating seeing it progress (albeit from afar), true cathedral scale engineering.
- parasight 13y agoI can't seem to find any current pictures using Google. Can someone provide a link or is it prohibited to take pictures of the construction site.
- quarterto 13y ago> getting ready to put in the seismic dampeners for the base layer of the Tokamak structure I love that this sentence sounds like 50s pulp scifi.
- ck2 13y agoand then there is PROTO (seriously, these guys love acronyms)
- sliverstorm 13y agoHate to nitpick, but it's sheer scale Shear is a verb (or noun); I shear the sheep Sheer is an adjective; I was awestruck by the sheer cliffs
- benjamta 13y agoquite right - thanks for pointing that out :)