by wintler » Thu Sep 28, 2006 8:12 pm
"this would be the most important invention in human history."<br><br>Is it rude to laugh? They prob said the same thing when data from the first (Russian built) tokamak was presented in 1968.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>lists fifteen other experimental tokamak reactors. <br> * TFTR, Princeton University, USA; in operation from 1982 until 1997<br> * Joint European Torus, in Culham, United Kingdom; 16 MW; in operation since 1983<br> * JT-60, in Naka, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan; in operation since 1985<br> * T-10 (tokamak), in Russia; 2 MW, in operation since 1975<br> * T-15, in Russia; 10 MW; in operation from 1988 until 2005<br> * Tore Supra [1], at the CEA, Cadarache, France; in operation since 1988<br> * D3D, in San Diego, USA; operated by General Atomics since the late 1980s<br> * START and MAST in Culham, United Kingdom; START in operation from 1991 until 1998, MAST in operation since 1999<br> * Alcator C-Mod, MIT; USA [2]; in operation since 1992<br> * HT-7 in Hefei, China; in operation since 1995; and HT-7U (EAST) since 2006<br> * FTU in Frascati, Italy; in operation since 1990<br> * TCV, EPFL, Switzerland; in operation since 1992<br> * Aditya , in Gujarat, India; in operation since 1989 Institute for Plasma Research, IPR<br> * STOR-M, University of Saskatchewan; Canada in operation since 1987 first demonstration of alternating current in a tokamak.<br> * CASTOR, in Prague, Czech republic, [3]; in operation since 1983 after reconstruction from soviet TM-1-MH<br><br>Rigorous? *sigh*<br><br>None have yet produced a consistent energy profit, all risk thermonuclear accidents that could level a city, all support the nuclear 'too cheap to meter' fantasy that allows weak governments to subsidise this mega-polluting industry.<br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=wintler>wintler</A> at: 9/28/06 6:13 pm<br></i>