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Sep 11 2021

The Biggest Megaproject You Never Heard Of

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May be an image of text that says 'In 1985, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev got U.S. president Ronald Reagan to agree with one of the unlikeliest ideas of the Cold War, if not science: the rival superpowers would lead an international project to develop nuclear fusion-the same limitless energy source that powers the Sun. Decades before, the Russians had devised the tokamak, a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine and control plasma ultra hot, electrically charged gas is most commonly found in stars like our Sun.'

May be an image of text that says 'Fusion forces together the nuclei of light atomic elements in a super-heated plasma held by the tokamak, so that they make increasingly heavier elements and in the process release incredible amounts of energy. The principle behind nuclear fusion is the opposite of nuclear fission, the process behind nuclear bombs and power stations, in which energy is generated by the splitting of atoms- -still more efficient than alternative fuel sources, but nowhere as efficient as fusion.'

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May be an image of outdoors and text that says 'Of course we have no way of knowing this unless or until it is tested. Tokamaks alone are massively expensive, and only a handful exist worldwide. Enter ITER, a.k.a. the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (also Latin for "the path") iter china Ûs eu india japan korea russia usa'

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May be an image of text that says 'Needless to say, something like this is very costly and resource-intensive, to say nothing of all the scientific and engineering knowhow required to operate it. Hence, ITER is funded and run by seven member parties: the 27-member European Union, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States; the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, and Thailand participate through other agreements.'

May be an image of text that says 'Aside from funds, each country is contributing to the actual construction of ITER's massive and complex tokamak, with the aim of getting it up and running in less than five years. Central solenoid Who manufactures what? Internal coils Cryostat Correction coils Thermal shield Blanket modules Poloidal field coils body text Toroidial field coils Cooling water system Vacuum vessel Divertor As of May 2021, it roughly 80 percent complete..'

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