Iter & West: Nuclear Fusion Gaining Momentum at Cadarache
Nuclear fusion is advancing rapidly, including within France. On one hand, the CEA’s WEST reactor has completed its experimental campaign by setting a new record. On the other hand, the final poloidal field coil for ITER has been delivered.
This vendor exhibited a camera that can take 100,000 frames per second, other vendors had demonstrations where you could see individual droplets in a shower.
My office at work currently has 4 women and 1 man.
I have been the “only” woman in an office full of men so many times - this is the first time it’s been reversed! And I’m having so much fun! (Sorry, Thomas, for all of the silliness!)
Overcrowding problem on China’s #ArtificialIslands in the #SouthChinaSea could be solved with tunnels, according to a #Chinese#ocean#engineering project team that says it has developed an excavation method to overcome the limitations of the soft coral sand.
After a rapid expansion of its presence in the contested #Spratly#reef chain that began about a decade ago, #China eased back on construction in recent years in a bid to soothe the nerves of neighbouring countries