ITER by drone - October 2024 (subtitle version)

[@R0EPK3]

Massive project. Thanks to all man and woman that work hard everyday to bring a better future for humanity.

[@ScottESchmidt]

The finest example of countries coming together to solve mankind's problems, instead of going to war with each other. Go ITER!

[@paulvarn4712]

The "instead of" is not the case here. Both Russia and China are actively pursuing war at the same time. China is also building their own fusion plants.

[@danielwalsh7618]

Massively over budget, massively behind schedule, Likely to be obsolete before it is even commissioned.

[@ArnaudMEURET]

@@danielwalsh7618It’s an exploratory project. It has never been meant to produce a working, production reactor.

[@mpokoraa]

Corruption has to be massively rampant believe me

[@ScottESchmidt]

@@mpokoraa Why all the negativity, folks? With any luck, this project and others like it can someday help to provide cheap and limitless power to the world. You can't win if you're not in the game.

[@Terminator0815Sm]

One of the most meaningful projects for humanity. I hope it works in the sense that it will lead to cheaper energy production for the world. I hope delays can be overcome quickly!

[@Terminator0815Sm]

And this is a great informative update Video. Every month would be great!

[@matthewcoates756]

It will be limitless, safe and clean energy but I doubt it will be cheaper. The ITER tokamak is just about the most expensive machine ever built. I don’t want to imagine how expensive it will be to build and service multiple tokamak power stations. But we need to build functioning fusion plants. Even the world using renewables to their full capacity couldn’t generate enough energy for the global population in 25 years. So we’ll be dependent on finite fossil fuel resources unless we crack the fusion power with net energy gain.

[@OpenGL4ever]

@@matthewcoates756 Some of the costs in Iter also come from measuring instruments that are necessary for research, but not all of them are likely to be required for a commercial reactors. Many components for ITER are also one-offs. Those for commercial reactors would be standardized and go into series production. This would reduce costs. A commercial reactor could therefore be somewhat cheaper. On the other hand, it will probably be built larger and will have a generator building, which will also cost extra money.

[@Welgeldiguniekalias]

@@matthewcoates756 This is false. While energy storage at scale still poses challenges, PV solar most certainly can deliver all the power we need. Considering that fusion power is still decades away at best, we need to invest in renewable power first and figure out fusion later. Nuclear fusion reactors currently rely on superconductors that will only work at temperatures close to absolute zero to contain plasma that is about six times as hot as the sun, which means you will always use more energy cooling and heating that you gain from the reaction. Perhaps humanity will figure out a better process one day, but we need climate action yesterday, not next century.

[@Astra2]

​@@Welgeldiguniekalias You underestimate just how much energy fusion releases. He said solar won't be enough for humanity in 25 years. Unless you want humanity to stagnant, solar isn't going to cut it until we build a dyson swarm.

[@TroyRubert]

Thank you to every single person that had a hand it making this all possible. Go ITER!

[@the_gobbo]

I find it wild that it wasn't even turned on yet it still had to go through maintenance, can't wait to see it working

[@-SpaceFrog-]

Ive always been a big supporter of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion. Ive been rooting for iter. Keep going!

[@ptonpc]

The world;s largest and most complex prototype. Here's to it being successful and helping to usher in a better future for humanity.

[@severinopereiracarollofilh5933]

Wish GREAT SUCSSES to all people evolved on this huge Project! Congratulations to all of you .

[@maxmn5821]

Thanks for sharing! Viel Erfolg ❤ This is not very suitable format to go into details, but may be it would have been worth mentioning that “repairs” are done to meet some very special requirements written with fission power plants in mind. And in a project set up not to maximize the build efficiency but to maximize learnings of the participants, all the people deserve our deepest admiration for keeping pushing forward.

[@theagentsmith]

When nations stop fighting each other and work together, amazing things can happen. This is progress for all humanity. Go ITER!

[@CarmaProject]

The promise of a post-scarcity economy and a future of diffused abundance starts from here. Good luck ITER!

[@Moltenlava]

Literally feels like something out of a scifi movie, i cant wait for this beast to roar for the first time

[@W7X5GHIEHBDIG45NSKSHSGV]

This video is like nolan directing a film and Hans Zimmer playing a bgm

[@aabbcc5154]

Yhea a lot of hot air, but little substance. Where are all the labor? Hardly saw anyone working. A lot of scaffold, but no one on it.

[@Ulteriotron]

This is awesome!

[@HedgehogInTheCPP]

Thank you!

[@thenotoriousjip3944]

Epic music for an epic project ! The only project the world is united on 🎉

[@astronautnr7]

Why does it say "repaired" all the time. Why did they all break?

[@etiennedud]

Did not break, but the tolerance after construction where not good enough for iter, because it was only discovered after arriving at the site, it need to be repaired here.

[@astronautnr7]

@etiennedud ohhhhhh interesting! Thank you so much for the info!

[@FrozenHaxor]

Unfortunately the majority of large diameter parts that arrived from India were deemed faulty after completing series of dimensional accuracy measurements, the tolerances were so much off that the parts would either need to be scrapped or cut apart and remade to the correct specification.

[@betaomega04]

This is the most important project in the world.

[@Engineer9736]

Assuming it reaches or even exceeds the goals, yes. But it's interesting anyway.

[@paleopteryx]

LOL, it will NEVER produce more energy that it consumes. Meanwhile it is sucking billions from our tax money and generates a massive amount of pollution (just think about all that rare materials that need to be extracted, refined, transported and processed). Fusion energy was and will always be achieved 10 years in the future.

[@oberonpanopticon]

You’d need to somehow make it cheaper and more appealing than coal. Good luck.

[@MaykThewessen]

What are the power and energy specifications of this plant?

[@Erik-rp1hi]

I would say device is the most complicated thing we humans have ever made.

[@FlavienS57]

Finally, a microwave-oven capable of heating the food in the time advertised on the food can.

[@benpolgardy9062]

3:26 are these giant capacitors?

[@kataseiko]

It has been a while since the last "ITER by drone". Great to see another update! What is the updated timeline on the assembly? When is the assembly planned to be completed and how far has first light been pushed back?

[@oberonpanopticon]

I ordered a tokamak in the mail from fedex. By the time it was delivered it looked like a stellarator!

[@LeChat084]

One cannot read the text and look at the pictures, it's a pity there is no voice.

[@homeplanet365]

So when will it be ready to install on the back of a DeLorean?

[@spacefreeman]

What was that "months of repair on major components" ?

[@فارسليبورد-ك8و]

في المستقبل البعيد وبفضل التكنولوجيا المتقدمة سوف يتساوى الخيال مع الواقع ويمتلك الإنسان قوى الآلهة ليحول الكون والأكوان المتعددة إلى جنة خالدة ❤

[@HowardHammermann]

"OUTBOAD LATERAL UPPER LH" Is that a misspelling of "outboard", or is that a new word that I need to look up? It's a placard on a part in a shipping container, at the 0:45 second mark. And yes, it appears to be a misspelled word...

[@rarbiart]

I love the Kickstarter campaign music!

[@lukedavey7693]

When?

[@alanblyde8502]

64 thousand dollar question

[@ilkerYT]

This is better than stepping on moon,unlimited ammount of energy concept in a few years glad to be living in 2024

[@edwardenglishonline]

Go!! Go!! Go ahead!!

[@xfox360]

man i love this thing

[@filipsz6728]

Finally you have roads there? Btw... I miss this place 😢

[@thijsbruinsslot7916]

All this effort to attempt to harness the energy of an artificial star... It makes me so proud that we are even trying this.

[@plauplapen8080]

Ich wünsche euch viel Erfolg ❤

[@atmikes1]

I’ll probably be long gone before first plasma. Godspeed for ITER

[@OptimisticHominid]

That’s a shame. To get a sense of what it’ll be like, find the video Help, my fusion reactor’s making a weird noise. I worked on that one. Best job ever!

[@RaglansElectricBaboon]

Having worked with custom vacuum equipment I think its standard industry practice for them to be made wrong first time.

[@Frrk]

Good luck!

[@pnield5866]

Looks like it is still a few years away - but I suppose better than 10 years! 👏🤞

[@SoCalFreelance]

High voltage scary 😱

[@Engineer9736]

I agree, that electric system is crazy. I would be scared to hell to turn that on lol.

[@thestudentofficial5483]

I wish i could work here ❤️⚛️

[@Engineer9736]

Starts to look like Half-Life 1. Over a few years someone will push the cart with the diamond into the beam and it all starts 😜 But it looks impressive.

[@averageman2063]

Amazing machine. the salvation of humanity

[@Silvergum]

EPIC

[@TeslaElonSpaceXFan]

❤❤

[@timothymarchant]

Should have just invested in improving nucelar power, that is just as green

[@jonkersvideos]

Could do with some solar panels on those roofs..

[@lvanlvanovich]

GJ!

[@butyouveheardofme3486]

Wird der Bums jemals fertig oder bleibt das für immer ein Nerd Funpark?

[@avertae]

Long have we waited, I hope we aren't jebaited

[@TCBYEAHCUZ]

Hurry Up.

[@biffbum8221]

Why are busbars made of aluminum instead copper?

[@morkovija]

Music is quite loud and the whole video is action style holywood movie sort of thing. I'm not sure who needs that. I'd prefer a bit of education, the currents handled by the bus bars, the energies consumed by the resistors in case of quenching. can we have styropyro tour the facility and explain to us the sheer magnitude of awesomeness?

[@imeakdo7]

Iter already has some videos like what you're looking for

[@ixoipsop7142]

The first plasma is so far away ...

[@szoferr]

❤❤❤

[@Xavier1...]

it better work with an estimated built time of 27 years ahahah i really hope it does

[@xThirdOpsx]

Thank you for this project guys, but please, work faster, Humanity need this ASAP.

Hmm, why cooled aluminium busbars and not copper?

[@arclchmp6225]

Excelente los avances...

[@justDIY]

Seems strange that so many repairs are needed for a machine that hasn't even been used yet.

[@asdx6232]

Engineering miscalculations

[@Trigath]

Listening to this while doing somethinig didn't work. Could you have someone speaking on the video.

[@slevinshafel9395]

i need ITER for yesterday. why is still under construction= hahahhaa i need fusion in my life.

[@jerrylou3791]

Slow construction progress. If the project was in China, it would have been completed 5 years ago. The project is now left with endless corruption and delays. I believe that in a few months, ITER will release another report with increased budget and delayed completion.

[@Y2Kvids]

No one imagined this 1000 years ago

[@miguelviana2215]

estoy seguro de que si los chinos se ponen y hacen uno de estos, ya lo habrían terminado... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣... vaya manera de tirar recursos y energía... así de claro... un saludo 💜

[@jerrylou3791]

As a participating country, we no longer trust this project which has been indefinitely delayed and has increased its budget. We are building a Tokamak experimental device of similar size in China.🤣

[@OpenGL4ever]

EU is not a country. Could you list individually the EU countries involved in ITER?

[@ptonpc]

The EU is a political and tradiing bloc. It has its own science budget. So... Think about it.

[@OpenGL4ever]

@@ptonpc My point stays valid. The EU is not a country. And every country in the EU does have its own science budget that is used here.

[@JHeb_]

@@OpenGL4ever I think it is just easier to put "EU" on the ITER logo rather than list all the individual countries

[@Engineer9736]

Just go to their website.... If you expect ITER to personally list out the countries in Europe here for you, you have to get yourself checked 😅

[@Gelatinocyte2]

@@Engineer9736 I mean, TBF, they probably just wanted the list of specific countries directly involved in the project. Obviously, not _all_ of the EU has a _direct_ contribution to this.

[@Cianan-vw1lb]

With the massive delay from the welding repairs, I wish you guys could squeeze in a generator to let the thing produce electricity for the grid should it actually work. It costs too much and takes too long to build these things to not be able to use it that way.

[@MrSaemichlaus]

Some group of entities will buy it and try that once the experimental use dies down. But first they would need to figure out how to transport the energy to the end user. Power storage and distribution is a big challenge still. So it would need a lot of infrastructure around the actual facility to harness its energy supply.

[@FrozenHaxor]

@@MrSaemichlaus Transporting energy to the end user is literally a problem that was solved when the first electricity grid was constructed a 100 years ago. It's the smallest concern here. They already constructed artificial resistive load banks.

[@I-Z0MBIE]

Has AI played a big part in any thing there?

[@Mrcometo]

It is satisfactory to see my taxes used in something I like... 😉

[@FluffyChillbear]

I strongly suggest adding voiceovers to the audio track, should be possible given the billions of funding for iter. Viewers cannot fully appreciate the stunning imagery while having to constantly to look down to read the subtitles. I find myself pausing and reading to understand what's going on. This disrupts the flow of the video and the very good background music.

[@sergeigarbar1896]

i waited this to be built in 90s. now: there is now windows 95, there is not nokia, yahoo is not main search engines, there is no altavista, ISS is built long ago, and its time to scrap it. Cassini mission was prololonged several times, and its dead. New Horisons flew and gone. Space shuttle gone. Already 2nd Curiosity landed on Mars, while spirit and Opportunity lond dead. JWST after decades and postponing finally launched and operations. Brent oil rig is already deleted. but ITER. still not ready. you bring me back in time. Its a time machine! )))

[@jackiecs8190]

Huh? ITER only started to get funding in 2006

[@roror88]

@@jackiecs8190 ITER was set in motion at the Geneva Superpower Summit in November 1985. Conceptual design work began in 1988, followed by increasingly detailed engineering design phases until the final design for ITER was approved by the Members in 2001. While it may only got have funding to build it later, the designs and plans where made public long before that.

[@jackiecs8190]

@@roror88 ohh, TIL! thanks

[@MrSaemichlaus]

You just cannot compare ITER to all the projects you listed. Period.

[@pivkaaa]

In hindsight, smaller would be more managable and finished already..

[@Gelatinocyte2]

The problem is: this is a Tokamak type of reactor, which AFAIK, IIRC, is not terribly good at smaller scales; there's a reason why they made this prototype to be humongous, I just can't recall the specifics. You'd want a Stellarator for smaller scales.

[@pivkaaa]

​@@Gelatinocyte2 Another thing is this is supposed to demonstrate that the technology works for one thing and that it can be built too.. So even if it works, what ITER demonstrated is building it is pain. Smaller would be better, fact:] And if it cant be any smaller, then the technology is like the maglev. It is awesome, but its just a gimmick. sry:]

[@Gelatinocyte2]

@@pivkaaa >comparing fusion to maglev Yea- No. You have no idea what you're talking about - and as if maglev isn't already a working means of transportation (look at Japan). The problem with maglevs is: do you even need it. Sure, it's a nicer alternative to (and goes beyond in some aspects compared to) commercial flight; but... you already have commercial flight - which is cheaper to build, and high speed trains are also already competing well against that. You also did not read my reply correctly: I said there's a reason they're building it huge, instead of trying to get it smaller - which other companies are already doing anyway. You're also implying like we haven't achieved fusion yet - which isn't the case; the real problem with Tokamaks now is to get them to _continuously_ operate - which, you know, is what you'd want from a power plant (for the most part)? You have to keep in mind that this ITER project is - first and foremost - a research project, rather than a power production project. They aren't trying to serve millions (not yet at least, they could turn it into an actual power plant one day), they're trying to see how this thing will perform at this scale. If you want smaller reactors, look elsewhere; they're already doing that there.

[@federox86]

if we pput the 10% of money spend in weapons...

[@Engineer9736]

If we just stopped having wars and put all the money in science..

[@steve1978ger]

This would be a better video with narration IMHO

[@letsgetoutsidenow]

Hoping to see this actually work, still disappointed that no power will be generated from this plant. Concerned about how frequent the word "repaired" showed up... 10 years ago projections were that it would be built within 15 years, 10 years later and estimated date of completion is still 15 years away....

[@Gelatinocyte2]

Where'd you even get those numbers?

[@letsgetoutsidenow]

@@Gelatinocyte2 my reply seems to keep disappearing or getting deleted? checked the wayback machine to verify my memory, seems iter was supposed to be already producing plasma by now with fusion 3 or so years away but something happened causing compounding delays till present where the new timeline appearing longer than a decade ago somehow. Further research indicates that design flaws were detected after fabrication of certain components causing a lot of rework... I'm not mad, just disappointed with how the project is going.

[@fischX]

Stop. Funding. Iter. That's just a money burning pit that leads nowhere

[@kisspeteristvan]

It's a nice COLLAGE of clips and photos for inverstors , the reality is there are delays upon delays upon delays . Of course every little mishap or delay means +6 months to +1 year . The "first plasma" is already delayed 9 years , most certainly we will have more delays so 2034 won't be a good year for plasma . Full operation was scheduled 10 years from first plasma , now we're looking at 2044 for full operation . With the never endind delays this might come to be reality in 2050 maybe .... let's hope . None of the leading scienstists will see the fruition of their work . Due to delays. This is a product backed by 3 continents "ITER collaboration Members China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States" yet it misses every deadline ever . I think this project is intentionally slowed down by the higher ups , maybe they found more oil , or lithium is more profitable , so this fusion is not yet needed , they can still make mountains of profits from other energy sources . So to make sure the profits are safe , they delay this as much as possible +5 years , +20 years no problem .

[@ChrisHplusland]

Or maybe it's just that hard of a thing to do?

[@kisspeteristvan]

@@ChrisHplusland It is , it really is , but do you know how many global powers are backing the project ? i even copy pasted it in my comment . When you have access to the brightest minds from 3 continents it becomes questionable how hard it really is .

[@-yttrium-1187]

@@kisspeteristvan >Maybe they found more oil You are aware that this is a research project. At no point during its lifetime will the current design supply any power to the net. It's annoying that no one at iter is willing to state this directly because their funding depends on keeping this minor piece of information vague.

[@kisspeteristvan]

@@-yttrium-1187 Yes Yes Yes It is annoying . At this point i just watch the updates...but i got tired to care. By the time they build IF they build power generating units i'm pretty much dead or at least 70+ . This does not affect me anymore .

[@ptonpc]

Oooorrr... and I know this will blow your mind... Designing and building something that has never existed before, the world's largest and most complex prototype, might be *slightly* harder than you think it should be.

[@A3Kr0n]

The never ending money pit

[@paulvarn4712]

For all the money and effort I hope it works. All these years bragging about the precision engineering and manufacture going into the project multiple components have to be "repaired" before they were ever used. I am not convinced it takes a project on this scale to prove fusion energy production.

[@ptonpc]

Are you a nuclear physicist? Are you an engineer involved in this field? Are you a scientist in this field? Nope so your opinion counts for as much as any other random on the internet. Remember. This is the world's largest and most complex prototype. The repairs were needed due to things that could not be reasonably foreseen, such as the welding and purging of tiny cooling lines making them distort by fractions of a millimetre. Where are your videos and papers showing how you could do it better?

[@Engineer9736]

I think they better used the word "corrected" instead of "repaired". Maybe just a translation mistake as they're French.

[@corneliushojl7994]

¿Rusia? ¡más os vale! después de la canallada del gran acelerador de partículas, espero que algo de seso este en este proyecto tan importante. Ni me molesto en traducirlo.

[@yelectric1893]

If it’s gonna solve fusion why aren’t you doing it faster? This circle jerk in the comments is good, but please, it would be so great to warrant the construction of 100 iters .

[@fullyawakened]

This would be so cool if sustainable extra-stellar fusion were actually possible outside of the core of stars. But it's not. Billions of dollars being donated by politicians who don't know better won't change physics. At least this will be the nail in the fusion coffin finally

[@stephen285]

all these repairs mentioned? HELLO IT"S NEVER BEEN TURNED ON AND IT"S BROKEN? We just went ahead and built it broken so we could get to work repairing it. Who is running this forever delayed money suck hole? I'm getting really cranky with this bs. I remember back in 2010 when testing was delayed and it wasn't gonna be tested till 9 years down the road in the year 2019, now they are saying 2035 - that does it, I am gonna find some other big magnetically suspended molten plasma doohickey to follow :(

[@ptonpc]

Calm down. This is a machine that has never existed before. This is a *prototype. The world's largest and most complex prototype.* In other words. *things will go wrong because no one has ever done this before* Now unless you predicted this in great detail with supporting documentation, just drink some herbal tea, breath and relax. Remember Karen, it's not an airport, you don't need to announce your departure.

[@stephen285]

@@ptonpc- its very big of you to take the time to explain things. Of course, building it pre broken is ok because it is a really big complex machine. If only they would have known it is a big complex machine before they started they could have avoided setting all those missed testing dates along the way.

[@Gelatinocyte2]

They meant to say "corrected" (or "fixed") rather than "repaired". You see, the parts just came in, and they were not up to ITER's standards; so, they had to "repair" them on-site. Also, keep in mind that this is primarily a research project first and foremost, and not necessarily a commercial project; so don't expect it to operate like a power plant and serve electricity to millions, unless they retrofit it to do so (and they probably could).

[@paleopteryx]

Has anyone quantized the amount of pollution and the waste of money and materials involved in the construction of this failed megalomaniac project?

[@Gelatinocyte2]

"Quantized". Trying to sound sophisticated, when you mean to use the word "calculated".

[@dDS33163]

Когда старт уже, жуки навозные? Очень долго нереально

[@asdx6232]

Китай быстрее построит

[@jelletje8]

atleast we still have ITER 🥲

[@Engineer9736]

What's your point?

[@Gelatinocyte2]

@@Engineer9736 I think so much things have gone wrong this past few years, and we have missed on some good opportunities along the way too.