One segment

Following my remarks about fusion a few days ago at reference 1, I was pleased to get some pictures this afternoon of the first of the nine segments making up the heart of the ITER Tokamak (in the south of France) being lowered into place. A fairly tricky bit of heavy lifting it seems, not least because the inevitable pendulum swing of the segment is of the same order of magnitude as the clearance. In the snap above, more or less there.

Tokamaks were, I believe, invented in what was the Soviet Union and Russia is a big player in the ITER consortium. Let's hope that that is not a problem.

PS: I had forgotten that ITER is building a Tokamak. It's CERN which does 30km underground rings, aka accelerators.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/06/is-it-green.html.

Reference 2: https://www.iter.org/.

Reference 3: https://psmv2.blogspot.com/2015/08/big-doughnuts.html. Earlier notice of same.