World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up

Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by hschne on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:08AM (#38541840)

If anyone was wondering, like me, why it took over ten years to assemble this thing: The video at the end gives you a good idea.

I wonder how anyone goes about planning such an enormous effort.

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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by _Microft on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:20AM (#38541905)

Time lapse of the assembly of Wendelstein 7-X:

https://www.ipp.mpg.de/1727365/zeitraffer_w7x

This is the assembly of Wendelstein 7-X, also over the span of a decade. It is a stellarator-type test reactor in Germany. Stellarators offer the advantage of possibly continous operations while tokamaks need to be pulsed but that necessitates a lot of contorted coils.

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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by freeqaz on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @04:30AM (#38541968)

Direct link for anybody interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eno5410tO0g

(Also in case of bitrot from the original article dying)

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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by MichaelZuo on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @12:46PM (#38547144)

Thanks, it looks like a very big project.

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Re:World's largest tokamak fusion reactor powers up by Timshel on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @05:53AM (#38542376)

If you want more details on tokamak construction there is recent videos done on Iter by :

- Up an Atom : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5RxUW7VC-A

- Practical Engineering : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD3dMzv1vIQ

And for the french speaker an older take from Monsieur Bidouille : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36WpRwY2DYw

And there appear to be a dedicated YT channel : https://www.youtube.com/@iterorganization/videos

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