Talk:Timeline of nuclear fusion
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1991 - The START Tokamak fusion experiment began in Culham. The experiment would eventually achieve a record plasma pressure of 40%
does anyone know 40% of what? Slinger 30 June 2005 05:40 (UTC)
The ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic field pressure. (Efficiency)
- Thanks! Slinger
"Construction of ITER was originally planned to start at the end of 2005, but will probably be delayed until March 2006." As far as I can tell, it's now September 2006. Any idea what the status is now? Direbmem 02:06, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
- ahhhm 2008? [1] soon to be pushed back to 2010? soon to be postponed to 2015 then soon after to be cancelled? sorry...bit cynical there.... --Deglr6328 03:32, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
In ChinaView news (Jan 15, 2007) http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/15/content_5608276.htm they claim that "During the first round of experiments, the reactor created a plasma lasting nearly five seconds and generating an electrical current of 500 kilo amperes." What's the hype about this? Is there fusion or not? Produces more energy than it consumes or not?
- It absolutely has NOT broken even but yes some fusion can be done at the temperatures claimed.--Deglr6328 19:45, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Misleading
The current timeline makes it sound like Teller created the H-bomb at Livermore Lab in 1952. This is absolutely incorrect. Livermore Lab was barely in existence in 1952; it wasn't able to design a successful fission weapon, much less a fusion one, for many years afterwards. The first H-bomb was developed by Los Alamos, not Livermore. --24.147.86.187 12:54, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tuck memo
I have been given permission to place a memo by James L. Tuck on my website; this memo contains remarks by Tuck pertinent to the naming of Project Sherwood. Bill Jefferys (talk) 21:54, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
