Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 8 of 320: construction in the control room means that our collaborator mascots had to be moved to the reception area. See that little monkey with the green shirt on the right? That’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory ?
Making Our Fusion Reactor Better
Update, November 9, 2018: the video above highlights some of the upgrade projects. This video was shot at about the halfway point of the 11-month schedule for all engineering upgrades. Our lab, the DIII-D National Fusion Facility, has ended its experimental campaign and entered into a nearly one year period of upgrade construction. This […]
Making our fusion reactor better, day 4 of 320: construction work requires taking out this platform that has cable trays running through it. All these cables are clearly labelled and ready for removal, right? ???
Making our fusion reactor better, day 3 of 320: where I go around the facility to make sure that these two racks can be removed from the machine hall. “Is this yours? Last call, it’s coming out!” ??
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Making our fusion reactor better, day 2 of 320: tracing circuit diagrams to figure out which systems are going to lose power when we start shutting things down. Is this what archaeologists feel like? ⚗