This project is something i was passionate about from an early age. Its heartwarming to see how Iter and i grow together. Iam currently studying engineering and maybe iter and i share a future together! Keep up the great, inspiring work!
I have watched fusion research go through so many competitive stages over the decades and am so excited to see this project since its start bringing the world together. I have watched all the channel's videos as they come out and have recommended it to others many times; even on national radio. Thank you for keeping us informed and ty for this particularly informative episode, it really is very much appreciated.
I have been following fusion as a power source for as long as I can remember, at least 40 years, it was one of the things that got me into a science based career. I really hope I live to see the birth of the fusion power industry, it will give me hope that my children's generation can correct some of the mistakes we've made.
I absolutely adore everything about this social media re-design! Get the public to know about it! Create massive discussion! Create more competition, more interest, more research and development! If anyone can do it, it'll be ITER, and if they succeed, they might've just built the Nr. 1 important thing on planet earth right now.
@iterorganization You said in your video.. "To eliminate the way to new energy". I think you meant to say.. "To eliminate the old ways, so that we can progress to new energy". Because you don't want to eliminate the way to new energy, we would be stuck in the past, how would we get there to new energy? lol If you see my point. : )
I want fusion to work not because I'm concerned about CAGW but because I'd like to see more energy independence and cleaner power sources. I see fusion as a path to easing energy scarcity and avoiding the senseless violent conflicts surrounding our fossil fuel supply. Hopefully the ITER project will be a fantastic success!
In the 80s Germany was switching a lot of houses to electric heating systems, because power at night was getting cheap because of nuclear power. Now electric energy got so expensive, that many houses go back to oil or gas. Why not bridge the time and keep fission running until fusion is ready? I switched my house to firewood in the meantime 😹 Seriously, I won't hook up to oil or gas!
Im all for nuclear fusion but as someone who lives and Germany and sees the country shutting down nuclear fission reactors and continue burning coal is just plainly stupid and irrational. Not to mention that we in germany dont have huge natural disasters like tsunamis , huracanes or earthquakes .Although nuclear fission might have a strong come back with so called Small modular reactors (SMRs) coming online in the next ca.6-7 years in some countries. because nuclear fusion reactores wont be ready at least until 2040. Iter will do its first tests around 2030-2036 and it wont be commercial nuclear plant but just a prototype lab for testing the technology. Also SMRs are much safer in design because safety is their main priority. In case you are not familiar with it i can recommend watching this video from Seeker Channel ruclips.net/video/Nh5Tx1QLKBI/видео.html
That's what you get, when a professor in nuclear physics becomes prime minister. Or was that just the Stasi cover and was she really a 'morale officer'?
I love how you spread your ideas and work to the public,awesome video and also your awesome photos! Your work of fusion energy is really amazing,building this giant beautiful machine must be very exciting! I hope one day I can work at ITER in the future,for now I’m just a high school student interested in fusion technology. To all workers and scientists working at ITER and fusion technology,thank you for bringing us this revolutionary idea!
would be great to see the workers, scaffolders, painters, welders, concrete workers, mechanics, cnc operators, etc. those are the people taking the real risk! gere during the project. the engineers, and people doing the cordination are ofcourse doing a great job. They get filmed like they are doing all the work.
Greetings from Romania. I will try to spread this. Don't know how it took so long to know about this. You should invest in advertising, at least on social media.
Hey Aditya, if you didn't notice, we gave you a shout-out in the Q&A portion of our second video: ruclips.net/video/WNpt1lFWchs/видео.html Thanks for engaging with us!
I think the biggest challenge here was the lack of funding over the past decades and weird political situations which prevented collaboration! Now since most of that is gone, you may flourish as much as possible.
one day it might be humanity's main power source. together with renewable energies like solar there will be a bright illuminated future for us alltogether.
Electricity is going to be very expensive this way, but reasonable in big interstellar spaceships! For daily purpose lets just use the hyper Iter in sky!
We just had our crew visit this week to help us figure out the next best place to put them. It may be a few weeks yet - the work site is changing constantly, which makes finding a spot difficult. As soon as the roof is finished over the tokamak pit, we should be able to put one looking straight down into it.
I've been following ITER for years now, can't wait to see it finished, yet I'm so worried that it could not work as if that would be the case, we are pretty much f@c*ed up... 5:17 🤞🏻
@iterorganization - How can I as an ordinary member of the public visit and see ITER? Do they offer guided tours? Is there a public display/information centre showcasing the work of the scientists and engineers involved in the ITER project and explaining it in easy to digest "laymen" terminology? Would love to see this firsthand!
Este proyecto de naciones es muy interesante y lo sigo desde que inicio. Y de ser posible solucionara los problemas energeticos del mundo. Saludos desde México. :)
*Si c'est pour l'avenir, pourquoi ce projet n'avance t-il pas plus vite ? Qu'est ce qu'il ce passe ? Problème de gestion ? Communications ? Argent ?...*
The energy of the future that will always remain so. :-D ITER is a most important experiment in the quest for fusion, indeed, but still quite far from a practical commercial reactor.
I understand that fusion is inherently safe, but I think it would be worth mentioning that - what i also understand - whenever you inadvertently mix lithium with water, there will be kaboom kapow. It is only worth mentioning in case something somewhere in some unforseeable future goes wrong and the public will go bananas, when costly as it may be - it would never be as bad as any fission device
I don't understand why it is necessary to build an industrial-scale tokamak when a net energy gain has not yet been demonstrated with a smaller machine. What if this one doesn't work?
To gain net power, the machine needs to exhibit a sufficient energy confinement time. This is only fulfilled for machines in the size of ITER or even bigger. Smaller machines (like JET in UK) simply "cool down too fast", so that they couldn't produce an energy gain. Previous work on those smaller machines already formed a broad basis of knowledge about magnetic confined fusion, that we're confident enough that ITER is worth trying.
@@fwieschollek Thank you for the explanation. I accept it, but it begs the question as to why researchers are building and using smaller tokamaks when theory (as you imply) clearly indicates that fusion will ONLY occur above a certain size.
@@bradleycooke5214 The answer is simple: its very complicated and expensive to build such a big experimnt, that it has been possible only to study the physics of tokamak devices on smaller scales for centuries ;) Remember, that ITER has been proposed for the first time by Reagan and Gorbatschow in the late 80s. It simply took so long. Good thing is, that many aspects of plasma physics are qualitatively the sane in smaller devices and we try to understand them now and then extrapolate to ITER's size. It looks good in general, but in the end we need ITER to prove thar all the predictions were right.
@@fwieschollek Thank you for your response, and I appreciate the dialogue! Here's another question: I know about the necessity of superconducting magnets to confine the plasma and how cold they have to be, as well as their proximity to the plasma itself. That's a huge engineering challenge! Question: Is the cryogenic system to cool the magnets used as a heat exchanger for the generation of electricity? If not, what will be the mechanism of heat exchange in a functional tokamak? cheers!
Should've done it in China, I think China would've managed to do it in at least half the time (only because i want this to finish as fast as possible and see how efficient it is)
The Chinese government also has a domestic tokamak program. See EAST and the proposed CFETR. In the West there are also private tokamak companies, notably Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Tokamak Energy.
China alone would not have been able to do this. No nation alone has been able to do this alone. The Soviets tried from the conception of the tokamak design until their dissolution, and they were among the most advanced nuclear power of the 20th century. China has difficulty producing war planes without committing intellectual property theft, so expecting them to be able to successfully create a fusion power plant “in half the time” is an idea perpetuated by misinformation. It’s better that this project is done as a collaborative effort.
Buen proyecto, hasta la unión de naciones se implementa, pero también es un proyecto muy arriesgado ya que un mal calculo podría llevar a una posible tragedia.
There was always a fourth member of the Chinese team at CERN back in the early 90s and they knew nothing about physics... Is it still the same at ITER?
I sincerely wish that you'll succeed, i'm convinced about you being our best bet for humanity's future. Quick question: did you have to deal with "climate activists" in any way and if so, how did it turn out?
@@esecallum What you describe are classic already existing fission reactors like in fukushima, once in chernobyl etc. This is a fusion reactor. It fuses hydrogen into helium. The only thing that gets a bit radioactive is protective material that gets bombarded with neutrons but that can be recycled within 100 years its not nearly the same level of radiation as fusion nor is it a nuclear waste like in fission reactors that needs to be disposed of that lasts thousands and millions of years before it cools off its radiation. Radioactive danger levels are extremely low compared to fission reactors. No heavy radioactive elements like uranium or plutonium involved.
@@FrankyPi Scaling down the sun. As noted above, fusion reactions in the sun burn ordinary hydrogen at enormous density and temperature, sustained by an effectively infinite confinement time, and the reaction products are benign helium isotopes. Artificial (terrestrial) fusion schemes, on the other hand, are restricted to much lower particle densities and much more fleeting energy confinement, and are therefore compelled to use the heavier neutron-rich isotopes of hydrogen known as deuterium and tritium-which are 24 orders of magnitude more reactive than ordinary hydrogen. (Think of the numeral one with 24 zeroes after it.) This gargantuan advantage in fusion reactivity allows human-made fusion assemblies to be workable with a billion times lower particle density and a trillion times poorer energy confinement than the levels that the sun enjoys. Consequently, the proponents of fusion reactors claim that when they are developed, fusion reactors will constitute a “perfect” energy source that will share none of the significant drawbacks of the much-maligned fission reactors.Now, an energy source consisting of 80 percent energetic neutron streams may be the perfect neutron source, but it’s truly bizarre that it would ever be hailed as the ideal electrical energy source. In fact, these neutron streams lead directly to four regrettable problems with nuclear energy: radiation damage to structures; radioactive waste; the need for biological shielding; and the potential for the production of weapons-grade plutonium 239-thus adding to the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, not lessening it, as fusion proponents would have it.
@@esecallum Thats exaggeration and false, radioactive materials produced as a consequence of fusion will be recyclable within a century as i said. Do you have any credible source of info about what you wrote, any proof?
1- Will ITER deliver a blueprint for a commercial fusion reactor within a decade/within the time it takes for humans to pump another 3bn metric tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere? 2- Will ITER deliver a blueprint for a commercial fusion reactor substantially (say 600 million tonnes of CO2) before a competitor project? 3- Does the ITER project 'feel' well managed or does it 'feel' like it's run by politicians (time waste, disorganised, ego before mission)? 4- Given the importance of solving low/no CO2 power to humanity do you think ITER deserves public funding or should the funding be diverted to other projects that are more promising in terms of cutting CO2 emissions sooner. 5- If ITER did not exist which alternative fusion or fission technology should the original $5b be invested into. Thank you
What do you people think about the fact that the President of the Wendelstein 7-X (the German fusion reactor, Stellarator if I'm not mistaken) believes the price for fusion energy will be about the price of Windmill energy? Will it even be a problem? Personal note: I don't think it's a problem, as a reliant source of energy, such as fusion is, is way more important than a cheap one. Wind energy would be much better if there'd always be wind, but there isn't, making millions of dollars worth of windmills just useless metal tubes staying around on the field from time to time. Fusion would be reliable, always on, always working. We could build an entire power network with the main part of it being fusion as it'll always work and we do not have to store energy on batteries.
Really? I can come and visit this machine that is going to be the future? Oh my god! Awesome! I am waiting since at least 20 years to see the power of the sun work on earth!
ITER will produce very little waste material; here's how it is described on our website: "Fusion reactors, unlike fission reactors, produce no high activity/long life radioactive waste. The "burnt" fuel in a fusion reactor is helium, an inert gas. Activation produced in the material surfaces by the fast neutrons will produce waste that is classified as very low, low, or medium activity waste. All waste materials (such as components removed by remote handling during operation) will be treated, packaged, and stored on site."
@@NKG416 just to add to iterorganization answer from their website "No long-lived radioactive waste: Nuclear fusion reactors produce no high activity, long-lived nuclear waste. The activation of components in a fusion reactor is low enough for the materials to be recycled or reused within 100 years." In comparison nuclear fission what we currently use creates waste materials which can last from 220,000 up to 15.7 million years.
ITER is just a laboratory for proving that we can produce nuclear fusion and sustain needed temperatures. There are many different startups working on different fusion reactors although ITER is the biggest one. In the end what matters is that we can build a functional, commercial nuclear fusion power plant. Eventually we might adopt one or another nuclear fusion reactor design as a standards and maybe even create mini fusion reactors.
Greta would say that 35 country putting a dozen of billions dollars in 20 years in something that can dramaticaly change the world is absolutely nothing : - USA spend 718 billions each year in its military ! - germany spent 450 billions in close to useless windmill and photovoltaic - Nike results : 36 billions, LVMH (french luxury group) : 50 billions -Football (soccer) economy : 700 billions EUROS ! A YEAR ! i just found you 2000 billions, most of them are spent EACH YEAR in close to total futulity or vanity . And it's the tip of the iceberg of b***it humanity is spending is intelligence and energy on, i forgot most of the fashion / sports / gambling activities . So yes, Greta could say what you did. and she would be right. ITER is widely underfinanced. We owe it much more than a global cup of football or some fu***ng fashion week, black friday, national gambling or enything else like that. We'd better have built already ten prototypes of different and competitive design to make fusion the energy of 2020, not 2050/2070.
@@philv3941 If the world would not be ruled by money and thus by leaders with severe disorders and weak character profiles we already would have fusion, end of population explosion and more peace on earth. Only repeating the truth has a chance to bring more social equality and more peace.
@@philv3941 Anyway is a big project. And I am not communist and I am.not to steal to big or small companys as Evita Peron did destroying Argentina for example.
This project is something i was passionate about from an early age. Its heartwarming to see how Iter and i grow together. Iam currently studying engineering and maybe iter and i share a future together! Keep up the great, inspiring work!
joshua james i study mechanical engineering at ETH Zürich. It great.
@@peterlustig2048 Wie theoretisch und schwer ist die ETH?
Sehr theoretisch, sehr schwierig.
The fusion constant: It’s going to be available in 30 years.
hee peter, gleiche bei mir :) Meine MA darf ich beim W7X schreiben, sowas hätte ich mir vor 2 Jahren nicht mal erträumt.
I have watched fusion research go through so many competitive stages over the decades and am so excited to see this project since its start bringing the world together. I have watched all the channel's videos as they come out and have recommended it to others many times; even on national radio. Thank you for keeping us informed and ty for this particularly informative episode, it really is very much appreciated.
Fusion is Future 🌞
And it always will be!
the kind of vid ITER was missing for a long time. good job. This project is absolutely fantastic
Our thirst for energy is unsatiable, we need fusion to survive ourselves!
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I have been following fusion as a power source for as long as I can remember, at least 40 years, it was one of the things that got me into a science based career. I really hope I live to see the birth of the fusion power industry, it will give me hope that my children's generation can correct some of the mistakes we've made.
*PRAISE THE SUN*
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*reactor explodes*
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@@Eloss69 Bullshit
Glad to see the world powers working for the better future of mankind🤩
யாதும் ஊரே! யாவரும் கேளிர்!
Video production has really stepped up. Nice!
I think they are learning from SpaceX
ITER's super-cooled superconducting magnets answer the age-old internet question: "What happens when you combine a fire star with an ice star?" :)
this is just amazing!! I am glad to see half of humanity unite :)))
I absolutely adore everything about this social media re-design! Get the public to know about it! Create massive discussion! Create more competition, more interest, more research and development! If anyone can do it, it'll be ITER, and if they succeed, they might've just built the Nr. 1 important thing on planet earth right now.
So as an engineering student I can just come and join a tour? That's awesome.
You sure can! Check out the website to line up a group tour - 10 or more people at once is best. ITER.org
Im up for it too!
Here's a better link: www.iter.org/visiting
@@iterorganization Will it be possible to visit the site when ITER is built?
@iterorganization
You said in your video..
"To eliminate the way to new energy".
I think you meant to say..
"To eliminate the old ways, so that we can progress to new energy".
Because you don't want to eliminate the way to new energy, we would be stuck in the past, how would we get there to new energy? lol
If you see my point. : )
i am watching these videos since i was 16 years old or maybe longer... it is really awesome to see the project grow in those 7 years
i love this
I believe in it. Make it reality.
I look forward to the progress. Hopefully this change comes before it’s too late.
I am so excited. Wish I could see it live.
If you're ever in the area:
www.iter.org/visiting
I want fusion to work not because I'm concerned about CAGW but because I'd like to see more energy independence and cleaner power sources. I see fusion as a path to easing energy scarcity and avoiding the senseless violent conflicts surrounding our fossil fuel supply. Hopefully the ITER project will be a fantastic success!
I want this experiment to be successful. Just imagine the future!!
Gogoo ITER! Cant wait to get it finished!!
In Mandalorian: "This is The Way"
Good luck to team of ITER, you are real heroes of human species.
I love to follow all these fusion reactor projects around the world. I hope you will learn some ground breaking stuff on your journey. 😊
Most inspiring video this century. ♥
In the 80s Germany was switching a lot of houses to electric heating systems, because power at night was getting cheap because of nuclear power.
Now electric energy got so expensive, that many houses go back to oil or gas.
Why not bridge the time and keep fission running until fusion is ready?
I switched my house to firewood in the meantime 😹 Seriously, I won't hook up to oil or gas!
Wood is a good source, it is renewable or at least CO2 neutral...
@@Lebensgott Yes, it is both when you have a modern forest management.
And if you make your own firewood, you get a good work-out for free 💪 😹
Im all for nuclear fusion but as someone who lives and Germany and sees the country shutting down nuclear fission reactors and continue burning coal is just plainly stupid and irrational. Not to mention that we in germany dont have huge natural disasters like tsunamis , huracanes or earthquakes .Although nuclear fission might have a strong come back with so called Small modular reactors (SMRs) coming online in the next ca.6-7 years in some countries. because nuclear fusion reactores wont be ready at least until 2040. Iter will do its first tests around 2030-2036 and it wont be commercial nuclear plant but just a prototype lab for testing the technology. Also SMRs are much safer in design because safety is their main priority. In case you are not familiar with it i can recommend watching this video from Seeker Channel ruclips.net/video/Nh5Tx1QLKBI/видео.html
That's what you get, when a professor in nuclear physics becomes prime minister. Or was that just the Stasi cover and was she really a 'morale officer'?
I love how you spread your ideas and work to the public,awesome video and also your awesome photos! Your work of fusion energy is really amazing,building this giant beautiful machine must be very exciting! I hope one day I can work at ITER in the future,for now I’m just a high school student interested in fusion technology. To all workers and scientists working at ITER and fusion technology,thank you for bringing us this revolutionary idea!
Followed progress for the last 17 years, incredible to see a CAD drawing from back then slowly become reality!
Long may the sun shine !
Great music, great video!
I think that will be the most important project from the planet Earth.
You should do interview videos or Q&A with scientists and engineers :)
would be great to see the workers, scaffolders, painters, welders, concrete workers, mechanics, cnc operators, etc. those are the people taking the real risk! gere during the project.
the engineers, and people doing the cordination are ofcourse doing a great job.
They get filmed like they are doing all the work.
Greetings from Romania. I will try to spread this.
Don't know how it took so long to know about this. You should invest in advertising, at least on social media.
I m beleaving and hopening for SUCCESS
Hurry up, I wanna see it working in my life-time 😹
*I know you can do it* 👍 👍 👍
it is just 20 years away ^^
It's great to hear about your outreach-program. How can individuals apply to make an appointment for a (multi)day-trip /visit?
Check out this page on our website - hope to see you here someday!
www.iter.org/visiting
@@iterorganization Brilliant! :)
Hey Aditya, if you didn't notice, we gave you a shout-out in the Q&A portion of our second video:
ruclips.net/video/WNpt1lFWchs/видео.html
Thanks for engaging with us!
I think the biggest challenge here was the lack of funding over the past decades and weird political situations which prevented collaboration! Now since most of that is gone, you may flourish as much as possible.
They make those superconducting coils for the tokamak in Genoa and La Spezia near where I live. Awesome!
one day it might be humanity's main power source. together with renewable energies like solar there will be a bright illuminated future for us alltogether.
Electricity is going to be very expensive this way, but reasonable in big interstellar spaceships! For daily purpose lets just use the hyper Iter in sky!
And people wonder why I want to become a nuclear engineer...
Can't wait to see more updates on the project in the coming weeks!
Amazing! Great video! Thanks for sharing❗❗❗ 🙂🙂🙂 👍👍👍
1:16 "We are building a sun on earth"
me: **swoon**
edit: Also super cool magnet + Blazing hot plasma : that's a song of ice and fire!
Achieving fusion power is just as big of a deal for mankind as the domestication of fire.
Thank you, ITER. Bless you.
Amazing. All my hopes in a bright future is on you.
Godspeed
Well done.
Great informations.
Awesome! Would love to visit and see this someday xD!
Thank you for posting!
Here comes the sun, nananananaaa! :D
Go WENDELSTEIN 7-X!
Great project.
Damn i was waiting for this update
PLEASEEE WHEN THE ONSITE CAMERAS WILL BE ONLINE ????? :)
We just had our crew visit this week to help us figure out the next best place to put them. It may be a few weeks yet - the work site is changing constantly, which makes finding a spot difficult. As soon as the roof is finished over the tokamak pit, we should be able to put one looking straight down into it.
Thanks ! Cant wait for it ;)
great job! i love you guys!
I'll never see fusion power in my lifetime.
You just need to look at the sun. In the case of blindness you can still feel the heat of fusion power.
Excelente!! Falta poco, sigan así!!!
I've been following ITER for years now, can't wait to see it finished, yet I'm so worried that it could not work as if that would be the case, we are pretty much f@c*ed up... 5:17 🤞🏻
@iterorganization - How can I as an ordinary member of the public visit and see ITER? Do they offer guided tours? Is there a public display/information centre showcasing the work of the scientists and engineers involved in the ITER project and explaining it in easy to digest "laymen" terminology? Would love to see this firsthand!
Yes to all! Check out this link to schedule a visit:
www.iter.org/visiting
Este proyecto de naciones es muy interesante y lo sigo desde que inicio. Y de ser posible solucionara los problemas energeticos del mundo. Saludos desde México. :)
On aurait préféré une version en Français.
En effet, ce serait bien. Nous recherchons des volontaires pour taper une version française du script à utiliser comme sous-titres en sous-titrage.
is ITER simply a Tokamak scheme XXL and that would make sustaining fusion?
Very cool video. Good job! Love it. Keep it up #iter
If it has never worked at various previous scales, why would it work at a larger scale?
I didn't know that Christopher Walken works for ITER
*Si c'est pour l'avenir, pourquoi ce projet n'avance t-il pas plus vite ? Qu'est ce qu'il ce passe ? Problème de gestion ? Communications ? Argent ?...*
Excelente excelente
The energy of the future that will always remain so. :-D ITER is a most important experiment in the quest for fusion, indeed, but still quite far from a practical commercial reactor.
I understand that fusion is inherently safe, but I think it would be worth mentioning that - what i also understand - whenever you inadvertently mix lithium with water, there will be kaboom kapow. It is only worth mentioning in case something somewhere in some unforseeable future goes wrong and the public will go bananas, when costly as it may be - it would never be as bad as any fission device
It burns, it doesn't make a Fusion Reactor Failure-like disaster.
Many chemical companies already manipulate huge amounts of Lithium anyway.
Looking forward to first plasma. Can't come too soon.
Really great video. But... more from a technical standpoint would be good too, focused tours of things like the cryoplant etc. Thanks.
We hope to get a lot more specific each week, indeed. Thanks for your input.
Next one will work and lets make another one bigger
I don't understand why it is necessary to build an industrial-scale tokamak when a net energy gain has not yet been demonstrated with a smaller machine. What if this one doesn't work?
To gain net power, the machine needs to exhibit a sufficient energy confinement time. This is only fulfilled for machines in the size of ITER or even bigger. Smaller machines (like JET in UK) simply "cool down too fast", so that they couldn't produce an energy gain. Previous work on those smaller machines already formed a broad basis of knowledge about magnetic confined fusion, that we're confident enough that ITER is worth trying.
@@fwieschollek Thank you for the explanation. I accept it, but it begs the question as to why researchers are building and using smaller tokamaks when theory (as you imply) clearly indicates that fusion will ONLY occur above a certain size.
@@bradleycooke5214 The answer is simple: its very complicated and expensive to build such a big experimnt, that it has been possible only to study the physics of tokamak devices on smaller scales for centuries ;) Remember, that ITER has been proposed for the first time by Reagan and Gorbatschow in the late 80s. It simply took so long. Good thing is, that many aspects of plasma physics are qualitatively the sane in smaller devices and we try to understand them now and then extrapolate to ITER's size. It looks good in general, but in the end we need ITER to prove thar all the predictions were right.
@@fwieschollek Thank you for your response, and I appreciate the dialogue! Here's another question: I know about the necessity of superconducting magnets to confine the plasma and how cold they have to be, as well as their proximity to the plasma itself. That's a huge engineering challenge! Question: Is the cryogenic system to cool the magnets used as a heat exchanger for the generation of electricity? If not, what will be the mechanism of heat exchange in a functional tokamak? cheers!
Should've done it in China, I think China would've managed to do it in at least half the time (only because i want this to finish as fast as possible and see how efficient it is)
The Chinese government also has a domestic tokamak program. See EAST and the proposed CFETR. In the West there are also private tokamak companies, notably Commonwealth Fusion Systems and Tokamak Energy.
China alone would not have been able to do this. No nation alone has been able to do this alone. The Soviets tried from the conception of the tokamak design until their dissolution, and they were among the most advanced nuclear power of the 20th century. China has difficulty producing war planes without committing intellectual property theft, so expecting them to be able to successfully create a fusion power plant “in half the time” is an idea perpetuated by misinformation.
It’s better that this project is done as a collaborative effort.
How can I work for iter
Keep on eye on this page:
www.iter.org/jobs
Buen proyecto, hasta la unión de naciones se implementa, pero también es un proyecto muy arriesgado ya que un mal calculo podría llevar a una posible tragedia.
genial, proyecto que une nacienes en busca de un mejor futuro^^
Your advancements will be vital for commercial usage in the near future.
There was always a fourth member of the Chinese team at CERN back in the early 90s and they knew nothing about physics... Is it still the same at ITER?
As an engineer, how can I work for you?
With a weight of 23000 t, or 8000 t if you only count the steel plasma chamber, a space ship using fusion power will be very heavy.
They're not doing this for spaceships y'know
@@trezapoioiuy I know, but i am looking into the future.
when is the launch of the reactor=?
2025 = First Plasma. 2035 = Burning Plasma.
It will ALWAYS be a dream
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The dream of the Future
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A very costly Dream
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I sincerely wish that you'll succeed, i'm convinced about you being our best bet for humanity's future. Quick question: did you have to deal with "climate activists" in any way and if so, how did it turn out?
Why would climate activists be against this? It's clean source of energy!
@@FrankyPi It's NOT clean but produces deadly radiation products.look it up.
@@esecallum What you describe are classic already existing fission reactors like in fukushima, once in chernobyl etc. This is a fusion reactor. It fuses hydrogen into helium. The only thing that gets a bit radioactive is protective material that gets bombarded with neutrons but that can be recycled within 100 years its not nearly the same level of radiation as fusion nor is it a nuclear waste like in fission reactors that needs to be disposed of that lasts thousands and millions of years before it cools off its radiation. Radioactive danger levels are extremely low compared to fission reactors. No heavy radioactive elements like uranium or plutonium involved.
@@FrankyPi Scaling down the sun. As noted above, fusion reactions in the sun burn ordinary hydrogen at enormous density and temperature, sustained by an effectively infinite confinement time, and the reaction products are benign helium isotopes. Artificial (terrestrial) fusion schemes, on the other hand, are restricted to much lower particle densities and much more fleeting energy confinement, and are therefore compelled to use the heavier neutron-rich isotopes of hydrogen known as deuterium and tritium-which are 24 orders of magnitude more reactive than ordinary hydrogen. (Think of the numeral one with 24 zeroes after it.) This gargantuan advantage in fusion reactivity allows human-made fusion assemblies to be workable with a billion times lower particle density and a trillion times poorer energy confinement than the levels that the sun enjoys. Consequently, the proponents of fusion reactors claim that when they are developed, fusion reactors will constitute a “perfect” energy source that will share none of the significant drawbacks of the much-maligned fission reactors.Now, an energy source consisting of 80 percent energetic neutron streams may be the perfect neutron source, but it’s truly bizarre that it would ever be hailed as the ideal electrical energy source. In fact, these neutron streams lead directly to four regrettable problems with nuclear energy: radiation damage to structures; radioactive waste; the need for biological shielding; and the potential for the production of weapons-grade plutonium 239-thus adding to the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, not lessening it, as fusion proponents would have it.
@@esecallum Thats exaggeration and false, radioactive materials produced as a consequence of fusion will be recyclable within a century as i said. Do you have any credible source of info about what you wrote, any proof?
1- Will ITER deliver a blueprint for a commercial fusion reactor within a decade/within the time it takes for humans to pump another 3bn metric tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere?
2- Will ITER deliver a blueprint for a commercial fusion reactor substantially (say 600 million tonnes of CO2) before a competitor project?
3- Does the ITER project 'feel' well managed or does it 'feel' like it's run by politicians (time waste, disorganised, ego before mission)?
4- Given the importance of solving low/no CO2 power to humanity do you think ITER deserves public funding or should the funding be diverted to other projects that are more promising in terms of cutting CO2 emissions sooner.
5- If ITER did not exist which alternative fusion or fission technology should the original $5b be invested into.
Thank you
But can it run Crysis?
Will it blend?
What do you people think about the fact that the President of the Wendelstein 7-X (the German fusion reactor, Stellarator if I'm not mistaken) believes the price for fusion energy will be about the price of Windmill energy? Will it even be a problem?
Personal note: I don't think it's a problem, as a reliant source of energy, such as fusion is, is way more important than a cheap one. Wind energy would be much better if there'd always be wind, but there isn't, making millions of dollars worth of windmills just useless metal tubes staying around on the field from time to time. Fusion would be reliable, always on, always working. We could build an entire power network with the main part of it being fusion as it'll always work and we do not have to store energy on batteries.
What was that thing at 4:35 8-O
Really? I can come and visit this machine that is going to be the future? Oh my god! Awesome! I am waiting since at least 20 years to see the power of the sun work on earth!
www.iter.org/visiting
Don't forget to like the video so it spreads faster!
what wastes produced from fusion reactor process?
ITER will produce very little waste material; here's how it is described on our website:
"Fusion reactors, unlike fission reactors, produce no high activity/long life radioactive waste. The "burnt" fuel in a fusion reactor is helium, an inert gas. Activation produced in the material surfaces by the fast neutrons will produce waste that is classified as very low, low, or medium activity waste. All waste materials (such as components removed by remote handling during operation) will be treated, packaged, and stored on site."
@@iterorganization very cool...or hot!, can't wait for the fusion energy!
@@NKG416 just to add to iterorganization answer from their website "No long-lived radioactive waste: Nuclear fusion reactors produce no high activity, long-lived nuclear waste. The activation of components in a fusion reactor is low enough for the materials to be recycled or reused within 100 years." In comparison nuclear fission what we currently use creates waste materials which can last from 220,000 up to 15.7 million years.
i want to know probability of success of this mega project.
99% :-)
@@MartyInTheWoods 👍
Protect this important project for humanity from Putin and his terrorists !!!
the submarine of jules verne had a fusion reactor ?
No, Jules Verne's Nautilus submarine was powered by sodium/mercury batteries I belive.
I'm afraid it's too little too later for big tokamak fusion, high field tokamak is what we should be betting in as far as magnetic confinement.
ITER is just a laboratory for proving that we can produce nuclear fusion and sustain needed temperatures. There are many different startups working on different fusion reactors although ITER is the biggest one. In the end what matters is that we can build a functional, commercial nuclear fusion power plant. Eventually we might adopt one or another nuclear fusion reactor design as a standards and maybe even create mini fusion reactors.
Make it happen
Nice. You should invite Greta to visit it. Perhaps she will not feel so upset about the institutional envioremental motivations.
Me and my cat: 😂 😹
Greta would say that 35 country putting a dozen of billions dollars in 20 years in something that can dramaticaly change the world is absolutely nothing :
- USA spend 718 billions each year in its military !
- germany spent 450 billions in close to useless windmill and photovoltaic
- Nike results : 36 billions, LVMH (french luxury group) : 50 billions
-Football (soccer) economy : 700 billions EUROS ! A YEAR !
i just found you 2000 billions, most of them are spent EACH YEAR in close to total futulity or vanity . And it's the tip of the iceberg of b***it humanity is spending is intelligence and energy on, i forgot most of the fashion / sports / gambling activities .
So yes, Greta could say what you did. and she would be right.
ITER is widely underfinanced. We owe it much more than a global cup of football or some fu***ng fashion week, black friday, national gambling or enything else like that. We'd better have built already ten prototypes of different and competitive design to make fusion the energy of 2020, not 2050/2070.
@@philv3941 If the world would not be ruled by money and thus by leaders with severe disorders and weak character profiles we already would have fusion, end of population explosion and more peace on earth.
Only repeating the truth has a chance to bring more social equality and more peace.
@@philv3941 Anyway is a big project. And I am not communist and I am.not to steal to big or small companys as Evita Peron did destroying Argentina for example.
@@TheSwissGabber Sorry, I don't have imaginary friend :)