Tag: ITER
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Our Visit to ITER in the South of France
On September 22 Marilyn, Eric, and I visited ITER, the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, about 45 minutes from Aix-en-Provence. We took the TGV from Paris to Aix-en-Provence. Our tour started with a talk by Akko Maas who gave a great presentation on fusion. He talked about building ITER. The complexity of the…
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Nuclear Fusion Power
Nuclear fusion power research started in earnest in the 1950’s. Initially, researchers thought that the work needed to produce a fusion power plant would be comparable to that needed to produce the first fission plants. That turned out to be unrealistic as the physics was not well understood and plasma confinement was much more difficult…