ITER Talks (1): Introduction to ITER

[@sylwek1177]

I can't wait when this monster will start running. If it will work as designed, it will put humanity at entire new level. Hats off to people who are building it. Even the smallest part.

[@sylwek1177]

@@TuomoTamminen How so? Do you know that it will be the safest reactor possible? Fusion is insanely hard to maintain so in case of emergency iter just shuts down and fusion stops. No risk of explosion, no contamination.

[@sylwek1177]

@@TuomoTamminen I disagree. Process is fairly known, but very hard to achieve for longer than 100s. ITER has to be done. It's necessary and unavoidable. There is no other way

[@LeszekChojnacki]

@@TuomoTamminen pf

[@Ausblack]

@@TuomoTamminen any chance of credibility you had flew out the window when you marched out the hypothesis of a God. You try to put the ITER project into the bin of "just a theory" yet you have no evidence for God. How obtuse can you be?

[@foxrings]

Here's to hoping it works as predicted!!

[@OneMonster]

What a fantastic presentation, we need more of those with more details, both on scientific and project management level! Can’t wait for a next one!

[@micheleegger7595]

I couldn't agree more

[@markvietti]

it will become corrupted . give it time..its human nature

[@asmodeus1234]

This stuff makes me emotional, yeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!! I love you all!!!!

[@adrienmorla3404]

Thank YOU so much Sir and the whole ITER crew for what you've done so far. Amazingly prescise, clear and inspiring content. Keep on the good work ! All Hail the Zero Carbon Energy !

[@KlaasDeforche]

Amazing video. Can't wait for other ones.

[@jackstarsky3268]

I hope they make a good documentary when it finishes and starts working as planned.

[@shanitasingarum4767]

Loved the informative presentation. Truly amazing work thus far. ❣

[@05Matz]

Thank you. All of you. ITER is a great lifeline helping people like me still maintain hope in the use of science and technology for the benefit of all humanity and the righting of wrongs in the world, rather than for the profit of the few. Not simply a step towards a new clean energy source, it's also a shining beacon of hope and cooperation in a world all-too-often lacking in such things.

[@bieahtjuh]

Thank you for a great, well delivered presentation. Very impressive to be able to do this without getting into complex physics. Also very good to see more details about the progression of the project and the challenges involved. Looking forward to more videos on other details of the project!

[@aztro4581]

best of mankind when we' re doing this kind of project all together

[@seejjordan]

Second ITER video that has really low levels on the audio. FYI. I comment because ITER is worth it! Love the work WE are all doing there!

[@vvanchesa]

I absolute like this talk and this introduction to the ITER Project. A good marketing is crucial.

[@YamilLlanos]

Amazing presentation. Thank you for this. ITER may be the future of humanity

[@fordprefect.betelguese]

I'm 47years old and remember learning about fusion at school.... back then it seemed like an impossible dream.... I'm overwhelmed with joy to see this technology finally coming to fruition... hopefully it will also mean much cheaper electricity bills as well as the environmental benefits 😁👍

[@TheDreamtimezzz]

2 or 3 GRAMS for fuel?! Amazing! (You need a merchandise shop - An ITER shirt would be nice to have )

[@tusmus3028]

I will buy one for sure

[@ReasonsWhy1]

Yeah that would be cool as, with the tokomak design on it or something

[@cedrany]

Love the information you are putting out there for everybody to see, we want more of it! Good luck on behalf of the whole world :)

[@djp1234]

Very informative. Thank you!

[@SubbrajoytiSaha]

Good to know in details.

[@dac545j]

An excellent presentation.

[@worldpeacepatriot9448]

It is astonishing to see scientists and physicists from different countries working harmoniously and cooperatively to harness and develop Fusion Energy for the benefit of all humankind , life on our world and safeguard it for future generations ! Then WHY I may ask do we continue to act and behave so alienated, polarized and divisive in our politics and ideologies ! CAN'T we come together in human solidarity to solve our vexing global problems in a manner similar to ITER ?

[@PádraigJMCarey]

an EXCELLENT video explanation of the unit in plain language that I can comfortably share knowing it's completely understandable to the lay person!!!

[@Hind135]

thanks for the presentation, very informative and exciting.

[@robert86sampson]

This is a great project, and great presentation! Thank You! #BetterTogether

[@markusheimerl8735]

Thank you so much for sharing this! When you mentioned that the tokamak will be the hottest place in the universe I thought about maybe swirlling gas around quasars could reach higher temperatures but it will certainly be one of the hottest places around! The massive scale of the project is daunting. I am happy modern civilisation is in a place to stem these things. There will be a lot of need in the future for large cooperations like these. Im thinking about lunar bases, astroid mining infrastructure etc. I can't wait for what cool things this century will bring. It is certainly the right thing to tell our kids to dream big!

[@aldergas01]

Très belle présentation, merci et bonne continuation pour ce beau projet.

[@stjepangorera941]

It will be good luck to the ITER and this is the proof that if we bond together we can achieve great stuff

[@michaelwalsh8659]

Great job. Well done.

[@albinekb]

Really good video with the answers to many of my questions! Thanks

[@peterisawesomeplease]

Great presentation its cool to see the relative scales of different compontents. It is pretty obvious though the problem this will face. Building one of these is just as hard as building a fusion plant and probably always will be.

[@alfredpetersbourg3324]

According to me we, this is where humanity should be in 2022 globally. Like cooperation, innovation, insanely huge project/construction in sciences.

[@Cimpoies]

Awesome.

[@arthurpendragon4995]

what a wonderful world

[@benediktgoerdt9827]

Awesome Video!

[@dominohubacek8353]

This was great, thanks!!

[@timcarut7529]

Thank you for the presentation. Very informative :)

[@dunderdotten]

I would love to have a beer with Laban, talking tech and the future

[@nicolepalomares8438]

I love that "Inertial con-Fusion" :D this kind of science really make me so confuse

[@jonathanlebon9705]

More of this please

[@danielpalmer8324]

This was a brilliant introduction!!! He simplified it down so well!! Fucking AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!😲

[@dr.pranjalsingh]

InTEResting project

[@dennisgarber]

I am a little confused after sampling the lecture before leaving for work. I heard him saying that no fuel will be used in 2025, just water, testing the parts. I thought the first run was proof that fusion could be done with positive energy output (of which, I am skeptical, still).... If they are just testing the parts, when will we actually see the proof of concept? Is the actual scheduled date for proof of net positive energy output in 2051 or is it 2055, as of 2021? Hopefully, I misheard in my haste.

[@bowack194]

Even if it takes a year to set up its not gonna take another 30 for them to get it positive lol

[@quaidcarlobulloch9300]

This is amazing!!

[@gilesm6470]

You missed the UK on the countries contribution map.. 24:48

[@mickaeldeclerck1196]

Europe country

[@GlobalCitizenLLC]

@@hundredfireify But to be clear, the Brexit agreement reached in December included the agreed intention for the UK to re-join Euratom, so if all goes well the UK should be "officially" back in the ITER project quite soon.

[@KlaasDeforche]

Thanks for the video. We really can't have fusion quick enough...

[@vanzipper6486]

Yes Waterloo off course!

[@Antihater44]

I like this one

[@livefromhollywood194]

This video was awesome, but a little long for most people. You should work with some education KZbinrs (Kurzgesagt, Veritasium, SmarterEveryDay, Tom Scott) to make 5-20 minute videos that would reach a much wider audience. If you reach out, they will happily fly to France to take a tour and tell their viewer base about this.

[@JohnLee-db9zt]

The production quality of this video is incredible. Lol.

[@lewislee9201]

When I heard that fusion is planned for 2035 I could not help feeling a pang of regret that I will be so old then that I may very well not be around to see it. It will indeed be a momentous occasion, even if there will doubtless still be lots of knotty problems to solve.

[@lewislee9201]

A great and very informative presentation btw. Please keep them coming.

[@LimabeanStudios]

He says 2-3 grams of fuel would be in the reactor at a time, but how much is used over a set amount of time?

[@gebbione]

What is the total cost of ownership? How much is the cost of producing energy ie 1 kW/MW ?

[@gebbione]

@@schmetterling4477 not sure how that answers my question. If the demo is counter economical why even bother?

[@gebbione]

@@schmetterling4477 that confirms my surprise in seeing so many enthusiastic people in this video for a technology that is not available, not sure if economically viable and will not help us fix our current problems any soon. It could be a nice educational exercise but we should rather focus on technologies that are really clean, economically viable but most important that can be deployed now, not in 30 years maybe.

[@haydentravis3348]

​@@gebbione Thankfully, it's almost done and your opinion can be tested : P

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Way to much. Fusion is nice science and all but it really has no usecase as an commercial energy source on earth. It is another piece of the puzzle if humanity ever wants to travel the galaxy though. But that is at least a century away still. None of us are going to be alive to see that happen. ITER is a 21st century concorde. Awesome research technology that will propel many science fields forward. But much better, convenient and economicly efficient alternatives are already available.

[@diegogullo]

@@haydentravis3348 not sure about "thankfully" in there. But once done and measured in economic and safety terms then at least there is a chance to actually have an opinion instead of unexplained exulting.

[@CharlesLales]

Excellent video, thanks! Is ITER public government only project? Any particular reason to not let privat initiative or investors to boost the project? You welcome this competition, but why not invite them to join? Do you think it would make it even more complicated? Isn't it possible by law to define clear return on investment to keep such collaboration reliable?

[@enragedares5992]

Earth arguing about if masks work or not, and pop music videos get billions of views .. yet this is something you have to go looking for to find.. crazy world ..

[@youme1414]

It is also clear we know little about gravity as well. if we can find solution in creating environment for gravity we can solve the problem faced with the net-energy problem with nuclear fusion in Tokamak instead of building larger ones to gain more energy.

[@youme1414]

150 million degree Celsius is not the hottest point in the universe, sir. The constellation of Virgo is 300 million degree Celsius or 572 degree Fahrenheit. We understand that the measurements in the outer space are based on calculations using physical instruments of measurement without considering some factors as the environment at that part point in space. This is universe we know very little about.

[@haydentravis3348]

Hottest point observed. Not hottest Theorized.

[@youme1414]

@@haydentravis3348 RXJ1347 is observed at close to 300 million Celsius, sir.

[@AndySpicer]

It has been said, and you said in this presentation, that ITER will produce a Q of 10. That means that ITER will produce 10x the amount of energy that has to be used to operate it. Is that indeed a fact? Or are you referring to just Qplasma vs output? If the Q you promise isn’t Qtotal then what is Qtotal? Is it greater than 1?

[@berndgasser7317]

Unfortunately, our generation has decided to drive large SUVs and jet around the world on cheap flights. Now you have to save the world for our children. Thanks and good luck.

[@haydentravis3348]

The government and industries colluded to keep us addicted and ignorant. Don't be so hard on yourself. I believe you did the best you could with what information you had.

[@kenmoore3384]

Bravo Zulu Laban 👍🇺🇲

[@luislobo1186]

Una gran cantidad de contribuyentes que no hablan ingles y ponen su dinero para estos proyectos bien se merecen unos subtitulos.

[@Thros1]

@43:00 wonder what could be done if they were to recycle/capture that 1.2 gigawatts, maybe store it in some sort of large capacitor that could discharge say a bolt of lightning?

[@davesidious2845]

I know he says the heat exchangers are designed for 1.2 but you know full well that the engineers will have used 1.21GW as the value :)

[@haydentravis3348]

"Designed to" is not the same as "Capable of". The designed operating values are often well below actual capacity for safety reasons. Spaceflight taught us that margins are very important for when things don't go to plan.

[@youme1414]

We are told it is going to be 10 times hotter than the center of sun to be able to generate energy yet sun does this all the time. It is clear we have no idea of the temperature in the center of the sun.

[@haydentravis3348]

Sun is also a lot bigger and gravity supplies the energy for fusion, not just heat, so it can be colder. We aren't using gravity, so we have to compensate with more heat/generate the pressure by heating the elements more. Hence 10 times hotter.

[@youme1414]

@@haydentravis3348 How do you mean? The solar core is hotter than any object can withstand on earth including electromagnet. Gravity is actually the weakest of all forces of nature. It is clear we have no idea of the temperature at the centre of the sun than extrapolated stats based on known laws yet there are phenomenal we don't understand, like the gravity itself, etc.

[@youme1414]

@@haydentravis3348 I don't want to bring LHC claims into this debate, sir.

[@KoseChris]

very well explained, good presentation, how do you know the tokamak will be the hottest place in the universe ( 31:10 ) :D

[@willis936]

People have got to stop referring to MCF cores as "the hottest place in the universe". It's not even the hottest place in the galaxy. Any black hole that's feeding, or supernova, or even human-run particle accelerator when a collision even occurs, is hotter. The temperature gradient might be the highest in the universe if you discount event horizons.

[@Thros1]

Yes but it sure does get people excited!

[@willis936]

@@Thros1 And people should be! ITER is an exciting project and deserves to be recognized. The importance of fusion research is understated. I'm just fact checking. Stretches of the truth are not needed.

[@Thros1]

@@willis936 I get it and you are right but the point of this is too get the masses excited! This was posted on KZbin after all I'm sure they have much more technical presentations for those working in the field.

[@_unknown_man_]

👍

[@johnh6245]

ITER aim to get a value of Q = 10 for the ratio of the energy produced over the energy injected into the plasma. Maybe, but it should be recognised that if the total energy running the machine is considered (this is large), then Q drops to unity.

[@quaidcarlobulloch9300]

Does that mean that Q=1 therefore its not energy +?

[@quaidcarlobulloch9300]

And is Q=unity real or an estimate?

[@ReasonsWhy1]

just imagine in a few decades when the first fusion reactor power plant goes online. That will be one of the biggest milestones in human history.

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

There never will be a commercial fusion plant. This will always stay in the realm of niche science until we are able to travel the galaxy.

[@ReasonsWhy1]

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Please explain to me with all your wisdom why you've come to this conclusion...

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

@@ReasonsWhy1 who will be willing to pay for the electricity comming from one of these by then? It isn't rocket science lol.

[@ReasonsWhy1]

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Who would be willing to pay for electricity from Nuclear powerplants, or large renewable installations, or other power plants?

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

@@ReasonsWhy1 renewable is 1 or 2 cent per kwh already and still tanking like crazy every year. Plus every single roof in the world will have pv on it in a decade and a half or so creating free electricity for most people and businesses. Just building one of these and fueling it would require it to sell at same rates as fission which is around 25 cents per kw/h... it is an economic dead end.

[@johnh6245]

The claim that fusion energy costs will be comparable with fission energy costs is fatuous. Fission does not need vacuum systems, superconducting magnets, or on-line tritium breeding and reprocessing. Nor does it have neutron multipliers (for tritium breeding), a complicated configuration, the complications of plasma control and possible disruptions, the irradiation damage from 14Mev neutrons (as opposed to low energy thermal neutrons), all contributing to the costs. Past comparisons - one around 2008 by an European fusion agency - show the capital costs some six times that of a fission reactor.

[@Thros1]

So we should just keep drilling into the ground forever to meet our energy needs? Yes it's complicated and expensive now but so is everything starting out...

[@runchaoli8011]

祝成功！ Qa'pla!

[@ThyMajesticOne]

We are building a sun. Can you believe it? This creature(humans) moved around on horse 150 years ago. WOW!

[@bozidarskobalj3166]

there should be more talks on thorium cells to since floods and bit reckless behave inc politics too in eu also bit like trying to control or feel power off control on mars and there is not even base there or people so so energy role and future has some purpose and tech too and research too not floods

[@lmargo3501]

What will be more exciting? Landing humans on Mars or a working fusion reaction?

[@hans-joachimbierwirth4727]

One is fraudulent talk only the other worked on by thousands of specialists.

[@geronimotudor3386]

I love this presentation but know for a fact that this guy drives a green and tan gas guzzling Rolls Royce silver spur. Totally True.

[@mariuscsernik5884]

How do you know that?

[@geronimotudor3386]

@@mariuscsernik5884 Siena College parking lot

[@BaghaShams]

Curbing fossil fuel usage is one of the side effects of this project, but that's only one of a myriad reasons for its development. No one said this project is for environmentalists. If he managed to be successful in his career and buy a nice car, good for him. Gas cars are the status quo and no one is saving the planet by replacing their well-functioning car. He's done an amazing job of presenting this complex project for us in this video.

[@geronimotudor3386]

@@BaghaShams Just sayin a Prius driver after all of that earth stuff would have been a nice end

[@trainzmarcel2074]

i love nuclear fusion

[@rahulbanerjee6635]

How much %cmplt and 1st trail when??

[@IbnFarteen]

It's a crock. How many years did they fight over where to site the project?

[@guardianpresencerobotics7776]

the water is the power and the power is water ocean energy is the cleanest energy there

[@yetanotherjohn]

OK, one more time for those of us in the back who could not hear as well: Why not Thorium?

[@michaelkaiser6893]

Always 30 years away! 🤣

[@FrankReif]

I'm glad it's happening. But lets be honest here. It's not going to be commercial in the time we need. I wish the same level of international cooperation could be used to work out grid level storage >1TWhr systems. We don't really have a problem of generation any more, we have a problem of obscene waste and lack of electrical energy storage. At the end of the day, the earth is a heat engine being powered by nuclear fusion, 93 million miles away.

[@paulvarn4712]

All this high tech and you couldn't provide a radio mic for the presenter. Shotgun mics apparently used here was not appropriate.

[@pivkaaa]

49:33 Inertial confusion .. Isn't that a great joke ?:)

[@haydentravis3348]

Ye!

[@happyhome41]

I don't understand why, if they're going to put out so much heat, to not take advantage of it, and simply contribute to the global warming problem.

[@mat7can106]

What? The iter plant is a research plant it does not put out greenhouse gasses and thus does not contribute to global warming and it is most certainly not meant to produce energy for the net.

[@happyhome41]

@@mat7can106 You are clueless - heat from whatever source contributes to global warming. Maybe your point is the heat from the plant will be inconsequential, and that is the same argument of every ICE driver -- their pollution is inconsequential.

[@mat7can106]

@@happyhome41 what? The reactor heat will not come out of the building due to containment and cooling systems also heat does not contribute to global warming due to the massive size pf the atmosphere and how we lose heat the problem os greenhouse gasses that make it harder for heat to escape into space.

[@mat7can106]

@@happyhome41 also if heat from every source co tributes we would already be fucked due to heating our homes, electronics that almost all produce heat 7.5 billion people that have high body temperature (not to mention other mammals) eyc.

[@Foxxorz]

This project feels like god's work.

[@geronimotudor3386]

I know, very GANESH ESQUE...multi armed

[@batman_2004]

There is no god.

[@jimmyb1451]

eater?

[@gordonwick1364]

The dislikes just want to watch the world burn

[@ronaldvankuyk908]

Where is is your deutiriumron steam turbine! Youre sitting on a cryoto tecnic happening

[@russhamilton3800]

ITER was designed to provide pensions and kickbacks, not energy.

[@haydentravis3348]

Aside from being a proof of concept, why can't it do both? I'm a socialist, and even I get that people need to be rewarded for extraordinary feats and efforts. Fairly, of course, and not at the expense of the greater good, but people need to feel appreciated at the very least.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

15:05 How are these guys going to get a fusion reactor working to breakeven, when they can't even show flags that aren't BACKWARDS?!

[@CanalTremocos]

By backwards you mean the side of flags that you see when the wind blows from your right? I guess we need a team of the best scientific minds to figure that one out.

[@ronaldgarrison8478]

@@CanalTremocos Por dios this isn't your proverbial rocket science. But I doubt if the Chinese or Koreans care. They're busy figuring out fusion. The Americans, I'm not so sure, given the state of our national discourse lately.

[@fatal9961]

this video is 52 min to long,

[@nanjappaa6163]

Known facts of unknown future. Firstly,I congratulation to new technology which is 70 year old and researching! It could have been better to start medium plants. Slow and study wins the game. This is a too expensive plant 65 billion. Still researcher are not familiar with steam thermal power plant problems. Now we can construct 500Mw CCPP with $ 280 million. Pollution is minimum. ITER need 3kg of detrium and 3kg Tetrium per day..cost of tritium is $30000per gram. So fuel is expensive. It is a bi product of uranium isotope.,which is derived from candy reactor.It generates radioactive . ITER 23 buildings more than 2000 man power.. This 65 billion could have spent on other industries and improved per capita income of French national for good living, individual housing, community improvements. Research is research. There is no payback budget to nations. ITER also generate radiation. So safety is unknown!!! Best of luck Then

[@lewislee9201]

That is probably something like what Neolithic farmers said about copper.

[@r.j.l.5493]

Amazing project but communication this way is boring....please hire a better communication agency for your presentation to get the adherence of a major audience

[@haydentravis3348]

With how many content creators exist today, using somebody this boring to listen to and with such a basic presentation is just silly. You could definitely get a good price, too, because of how many there are and how easily it is to sample their content.

[@Bibibosh]

This is how dark matter is made. Dark matter is the stuff that matter dies into

[@Bultish]

this should have 1 Billion views, just shows how bad humans use their attention...

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

Why? It is just red hearings and pipe dreams.

[@Bultish]

@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 aha so you are the worlds omnipotent plasma physics guy, they should have just talked to you and we would save so much money! Care to elaborate though?

[@baronvonlimbourgh1716]

@@Bultish it is nice technology and all. And we will probably need it if we ever wanna travel the solar system. But as a source of power here on earth it will always be at an economic disadvantage that simply makes it a dead end. Energy is changing to a decentralised distributed network now. This technology is 30 years late at this point.

[@asmodeus1234]

Laban you sexy beast!

[@FisicoNuclearCuantico]

"Inertial Confusion" Thank you Laban. @iterorganization

[@benhuffington8482]

Nuclear is so much cheaper and safe.

[@haydentravis3348]

Fusion. As the presentation points out, Fission is very dangerous as it relies on a runaway chain reaction that has to be actively managed. If you lose power, while the reaction is running, you get Chernobyl or Fukushima. With fusion, the chain reaction is induced and will stop very shortly after power loss. Residual heat in the system may remain dangerous for hours and the coolant can be radioactive and very very hot, thought alpha radiation is most common in fusion and doesn't penetrate skin very well and dissipates fast. Breathing in the coolant vapors, however, will probably melt you from the inside out in a few hours.

[@nehabkeinyoutubesry]

Well spent tax money, finally

[@kohlweydesign]

How many solar panels can you install for 45 billion dollars?

[@nehabkeinyoutubesry]

@@kohlweydesign imagine buying Solar panels for 45 billion just to get 12 hours of 9000 Terawatt of Power and 12 hours of nothing xD

[@kohlweydesign]

@@nehabkeinyoutubesry I think ITER is bad ass, that's why I follow the progress, don't get me wrong. It does seem like the money could have been used for something a little more right now. I guess when you look at the wars over oil and how much money that has cost....Let's just hope it works. Have a nice day

[@ProjectStickman]

He seems very, very nervous.

[@Ktkahghierm_quakeDddYyy]

#downlivesmatter