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? ⚗
A huge uncertainty and debate concerning the cost for an experimental facility: is ITER a $22B facility, or a $65+ billion facility?
Just finished a 20-week experimental campaign and ready to begin a 12-month shutdown period for major upgrades. One thing to notice is that our DIII-D website and DIII-D Wikipedia pages need a lot of work. There is way more excitement than those pages convey!
Dynamic Neutral Beam Current and Voltage Control to Improve Beam Efficacy in Tokamaks
The publication provided below is concerned with showing how we can reduce the energy of particle beams injected in tokamaks while actually improving the performance. The trick is that the reduced energy, i.e., beam voltage, must be accompanied by an increase in the beam current. This allows a larger number of lower energy particles to […]
Broke a pair of loppers in the yard yesterday. I’m mostly bummed out, but also feeling a little bit tough ?
Whenever we have a training session for legal issues, it consists of a lawyer reading off a list of lawsuits. Similar to safety training, I think they are purposely using a training-by-fear technique… which totally works.