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. ⚗☀?
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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.
LAMP is over! To top it off, our team won the “prestigious Paper Cup” award by piloting our simulated paper company to the best performance over six years. Revenue went from $1B to $1.7B while supporting environmentally friendly development.
Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 18 of 320: nearly ready to pull the particle beam out of the pit. All particle source and acceleration hardware has been removed. About 10 MW of power (few thousand homes worth) flows through those two copper rectangles near the bottom.