Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 47 of 320: the control room is being emptied in preparation for renovation. Getting a new carpet seems like such a small change, but it’s going to be a big improvement.

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 37 of 320: actually, I’m not sure what’s going on today because I’m moving to a new house 🚚

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 32 of 320: 10% of our calendar time is expended! 😅

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 31 of 320: who wouldn’t want their workstation spotlight to be in the form of a small chrome skull? 📷

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 30 of 320: the duct that connected the particle beam to the vacuum vessel is sealed off so that we can collect the debris generated by grinding this off of the vessel. Notice the vacuum hose inserted through the part surrounded by blue tape.

Even with all the advice that people have given me regarding kids, no one ever mentioned the period of toddler behavior where they go around locking doors by accident. 👧👶

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 26 of 320: 🎤
Goodbye Neutral Beam
Now that we see you out of the hall
You had the grace to hold off
Many, many kilovolts

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 25 of 320: our scale model (used for tours) is now sporting a neat interactive screen (lower right). Bonus: if you view the full size image, then you can read the highlight statistics on the boards above the screen.

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 24 of 320: two great accomplishments yesterday; the first crew entered the vessel to perform a survey (see clean suits, now we can start installations), and the particle beam was fully separated from the tokamak. ⚗☀📷

Making Our Fusion Reactor Better, day 23 of 320: spool #1 of the neutral beam is out of the machine hall.  👨🏻🔬 👩🏿🔬