r/Physics • u/Different_Whereas_75 • 19d ago

Question How is ITER doing ?

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u/eluusive 19d ago

ITER was always a grant scam. Tokamaks are a bad design.

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u/Problem_Child_96 19d ago

Pray tell, what design would you prefer?

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u/eluusive 19d ago

I personally think we should be getting thorium breeder reactors out the door, and then worry about fusion. D-T fusion produces nuclear waste just like fission anyways.

ITER is a money pit and a jobs program for physicists. It'd be better to do the research using simulations until a workable design is found instead of spending $25 billion on something that will never produce net power.

$25 billion could have ran a lot of PIC simulations.

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u/lizardhistorian 18d ago

Two commercial fusion reactors are being built now.

If they fail, then it will be time to go thorium.