I'll improve the submitted image at some point, the compression has wrangled it a bit. However its 3:42 am and I dun think my eyes are capable of spotting any improvements :P~

Fusion! Yay! XD

Amazing drawing of the reactor, stripey! ^^

Hee fankies stud, need to polish the poster bit up a bit tho ;P~

It is mind-boggling how complex ITER needs to be to work, and frustrating how long it's taking. Back when I was in ... middle school? it was scheduled for completion in 2012. Can't someone come up with a simpler design? Well maybe that's the point of NIF.

Dun think first plasma is due to 2018 o..o

Even still its a big engineering ask with a bajillion components, and half of the exercise is learning how to build one for say DEMO

NIF is... *handwaving gesture* You checked outer HIPER? not built- but interesting

According to a Scientific American article, "the start date has slipped from 2016 to 2018 to late 2020." I guess I was misremembering.

NIF is supposed to ignite this year though. And what little I've (just now) read of HiPER kept stressing the fact that NIF proves the concept and then HiPER makes it more useful. As far as I am aware NIF has not yet accomplished their vaunted "ignition" which HiPER was planned around. But if HiPER proceeds as scheduled it may outpace ITER. (I wouldn't refer to either ITER or HiPER as being built yet. But they are both certainly funded and on the way. Yay)

I must admit I am not thrilled around laser initiated fusion, but practically its was simpler than managing a coupla thousand metres cubed of rarefied plasma at a hundred million °K. And cheaper >..>. Also as a European I like a local NIF-like facility :P.

Your probably right about ITER an 2020, I do like reading their 'Newsline' on their site- pouring concrete for the tokamak stands an etc now *squees*