Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 26 of 320: ? Goodbye Neutral Beam Now that we see you out of the hall You had the grace to hold off Many, many kilovolts
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Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 25 of 320: our scale model (used for tours) is now sporting a neat interactive screen (lower right). Bonus: if you view the full size image, then you can read the highlight statistics on the boards above the screen.
Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 24 of 320: two great accomplishments yesterday; the first crew entered the vessel to perform a survey (see clean suits, now we can start installations), and the particle beam was fully separated from the tokamak. ⚗☀?
Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 23 of 320: spool #1 of the neutral beam is out of the machine hall. ??? ???
Plasmatica has ten user ratings and they are all 5/5 ? As an app for plasma physicists, I’m surprised that (a) ten users were willing to provide a rating (there are no requests made by the app), and (b) that scientists could rate something without absolutely picking it apart!
Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 19 of 320: separating the particle beam segments to allow removal. The screwdriver-shaped prongs ensure alignment between these pieces. For scale, I could stand up in the middle of those prongs.