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Completion of ITER's 493 anti-seismic pads.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 1:10 pm
by Chris Bradley
FYI; The tokamak 'pit' has been completed this month with the 493rd anti-seismic pad that will support ITER's toroid.
Thought I'd pin up a strip of pictures of the job so far. I think it gives a good impression of the size the thing is going to be.
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Re: Completion of ITER's 493 anti-seismic pads.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 2:28 pm
by John Futter
Nice to see NZ technology being used
Those are Robinson Seismic base isolators developed about 20 years ago 200m from where I work
They consist of Rubber / Lead the Lead being used to diddipate the energy by melting inside its rubber containment
Re: Completion of ITER's 493 anti-seismic pads.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 3:37 pm
by Richard Hull
As always in the fusion world, bigger and better dreams require truly bigger and better stuff with money to match.
When done will we get honest, digestable reports of results or the usual public fluff? I am so weary of the latter.
Yes, it's big, but so are some of my farts.
Richard Hull
Re: Completion of ITER's 493 anti-seismic pads.
Posted: Thu May 03, 2012 7:08 pm
by David Housley
And I suspect many of those farts produce more energy than most tokamaks.. (Sorry, I Just HAD to...)
David H.
Re: Completion of ITER's 493 anti-seismic pads.
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:09 pm
by Doug Browning
Looks like it's already leaking plasma. Running all over in the pics.
Re: Completion of ITER's 493 anti-seismic pads.
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 6:45 pm
by Chris Bradley
Seismic *pads*, Richard, not your seismic *pants*!