Engineering The Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor

A civil engineer's tour of the ITER megaproject

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I don’t know much about superconducting coils or cyclotron resonance heating or breeder blankets, but I do know it takes a lot of earthwork and steel and concrete to build the biggest nuclear fusion reactor on earth.

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