Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 121 of 320: we are still in the realm where schedule delays can be overcome with overtime.
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Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 116 of 320: a great week, we completed 3 diagnostic system design reviews! The average time to completion is 95.5 days, so knocking these out is important to keeping on schedule.
Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 114 of 320: today I learned how wedge anchors are used to secure objects to existing concrete slabs. These will hold our 50-ton particle beam in place. This YouTube video explains the general concept.
I can tell when school resumes because it is the only time my set of electrodynamics problem examples gets traffic ?
Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 110 of 320: the rebar in the concrete pad for the particle beam has to be electrically isolated (see black insulators). If the rebar forms electrical loops, then those would produce stray magnetic fields that negatively impact the beam.
The first-ever DIII-D Diagnostics t-shirt, celebrating 2018 as the Year of the Photon ?. I offered this to the group and interest was way above what I expected.