Even ITER has to shop around for parts.

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Even ITER has to shop around for parts.

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Nice little plugs! Well, they got two of 'em; only 998 to go. We gripe about Lesker's $1,000 for a giant simple 60kv+ vacuum rated insulator on CF flange at room temp! $1,000 may not buy the red hardline cable going in and out of those puppies that the guys are holding in the picture, much less the male/female pair of actual connectors! Let us say they get them in a lot of 1,000 for a fire sale price of $3,800 each that is only 3.8 million bucks and all they have are just those particular connectors. Wow! Acting like you are going to do fusion is always expensive.

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Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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That post made me giggle Richard, thanks! If all that money they throw away on ITER would go into furthering fission research, developing, building gen 4 fission reactors....One can only dream!
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Amen, Brother!

Fission talks, Fusion walks.

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Progress may have been a good thing once, but it just went on too long. - Yogi Berra
Fusion is the energy of the future....and it always will be
The more complex the idea put forward by the poor amateur, the more likely it will never see embodiment
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