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ITER Fusion Reactor To See Further Delays, With Operations Pushed To 2034
John Timmer reports via Ars Technica: On Tuesday, the people managing the ITER experimental fusion reactor announced (PDF) that a combination of delays and altered priorities meant that its first-of-its-kind hardware wouldn't see plasma until 2036, with the full-energy deuterium-tritium fusion push...
John Timmer reports via Ars Technica: On Tuesday, the people managing the ITER experimental fusion reactor announced(PDF) that a combination of delays and altered priorities meant that its first-of-its-kind hardware wouldn't see plasma until 2036, with the full-energy deuterium-tritium fusion pushed back to 2039. One of them is the product of the international nature of the collaboration, which sees individual components built by different partner organizations before assembly at the reactor site in France. The country's nuclear safety regulator had concerns about the assembly of some of the components and halted construction on the reactor.
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