https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/iters-timeline-for-fusion-stretched-out-even-further/
A project that costs tens of billions of dollars and takes decades to build and the work is divided up among several different countries. Maybe they'll finish it by 2100.
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Instead of using modern nuclear reactors
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It's a research project so obviously it's untested, uncertain and theoretical.
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And most importantly, a waste of resources!
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Better this than forever wars in the sand.
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Eh, it's like 20 billion? Sure, the project management has been r-slurred, but building normal nuclear power plants is going to cost anything from 8 (Chinkland) to 10 (single new reactor in Finland) to 20 (big turkroach NPP project) billion anyway, so it's not even extraordinarily expensive for the field.
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Waste of resources.
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The jokes about it being delayed again and again are already old. Like my dad joked about it when I was a child.
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Video explaining ITER construction
!engineering !ifrickinglovescience
All mega projects are destined to be over the budget because there so many parts and things that can go wrong which are impossible to account in the budget. In the case of ITER they're building an experimental reactor without previous know-how, in other words, they're learning to build a fusion reactor (one which can produce more energy output than it's input) and the biggest problem is with magnetic plasma confinement which our !physics friends can explain better but it's the hardest part to design and build. The more a project get's delayed the more expensive it gets either because of inflation, or because materials price and shipping rises and because you gotta keep paying the contractors during the delays.
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I don't
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OH, lol! They're building it in France.
It'll never be completed.
Hopefully, all research from now til then stays static, or they don't develop an alternative method that works (
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!commenters did y'all see this? New way of achieving fusion that actually has a chance of recovering useable energy
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that's what every research team says when they have a new idea
the truth is however...
just remember z-pinch, hailed as the definite method for fusion : it was a wet fart
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These guys are consistently achieving fusion already. They are now building the 6th version which will produce power
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Is that his helion video? I love Real Engineering but that company is kind of sketchy. Big claims but not much work done so far.
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I honestly haven't heard of Helion prior to this but if there is any truth to what they are saying, it makes sense to keep it secret. I'm assuming they are only revealing more info now to fund the energy producing prototype. They are claiming this one is consistently achieving fusion
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just 20 more years bro
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