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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by onlyrealcuzzo on Wednesday September 08, 2021 @07:17PM (#28464246)
Is it massive because it's 6 meters? Like - a 6 meter diamond would be "massive" - but a 6 meter boat isn't that impressive.

Or is it massive like the tokamak is a 6 meter engine to a 100 km collider? Like there's a ton of other stuff being built in a massive structure?

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by dodobirdlord on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:48AM (#28466325)
A 6 meter superconducting magnetic containment vessel is massive, as such things go. But ITER is also an entire facility built around the containment vessel.
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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by lambdatronics on Thursday September 09, 2021 @11:19PM (#28477438)
The magnets are so large they had to build a factory on-site to put them together. If you can make the magnets small enough to transport from a centralized factory, that's a huge win.
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