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0 pointssbierwagen4y ago0 comments

Here's a render of the completed reactor: https://www.iter.org/doc/all/content/com/gallery/media/7%20-... Note human for size.

It's all completely bespoke scientific equipment hand made for this project only. The cryostat will be the largest stainless steel vacuum vessel ever made-- all welded by hand.

After welding, a substantial number of in-vessel components have to be installed by threading them through access ports, which is also quite a task: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt70mO2nQac

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fabiospampinato4y ago

Here's a similar picture for SPARC from wikipedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/SP...

pas4y ago

It still need a lot of the (same) support infrastructure. Plus ARC will be bigger than SPARC.

That said building the first is a lot harder than scaling it up.

sbierwagenOP4y ago

I believe SPARC is a magnet demo, so it won't have tritium breeding blankets like ITER. It also has a shorter pulse time, 10 seconds vs 1000.

(That's right. ITER, which will cost more than $65 billion and take decades to build, can't run continuously!)

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kwertyoowiyop4y ago

That will become a level in an FPS game for sure.

lambdatronics4y ago

Lol, I have the same though. They'll probably need to make the equipment a little sparser though, because it gets super crowded once everything is installed. Those cut-aways don't show all the detail.

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