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? ???
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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!” ??
Now I see how SurveyMonkey gets you… the service is free up to 10 questions, but a paid account is needed to download results. You can read results for free, of course, but if you want to process them beyond the default displays, then you need a premium account.
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!