We Went Inside the Largest Nuclear Fusion Reactor
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- This could be the most important construction project of our lifetimes. See how digital tools are enabling the ITER project - bit.ly/3KGfiF8
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How, in 9 minutes, you've managed to expertly weave a narrative on the importance of both nuclear fusion and construction together seamlessly is nothing short of astounding. This channel really is something else entirely 👏
Exactly, they dive right into it and keep you interested throughout.
If I could give this guy a quarter every time he made a nice video, he'd have a lot of quarters.
"Must See TV"
there's a saturday morning breakfast cereal comic that made a joke on educators vs fanatics (it's comic/2010-12-09) - this channel is amazing at distilling important and esoteric scientific ideas into something that is digestible to the average individual, without basically ignoring a lot of the scientifically important aspects.
Like I was horrible at science when i went to high school and if I had to self study these ideas I would get overwhelmed with Wikipedia articles that tend to be more toward the 'technical' and less toward the 'understandable' spectrum. without these YT channels I would be thoroughly ignorant of these things. so important!
If I had a quarter every time a news anchor used the word narrative
ITER is one of the single most important projects happening on earth right now. I really hope it's successful.
Sadly most people don't care
There is no way to overstate that. Even removing global warming from the equation, there is the health effects of pollution, and wars fought over oil. At this very moment, Russia has invaded Ukraine. Not to liberate fellow Slavic people or stop imaginary bio labs, but because a massive natural gas field was found in Ukraine that would disrupt Russia's entire economy. Tens of thousands dead for petrodollars.
@@ffdv7458 Fortunately they don't need to. As long as the value is recognised by decision makers, we will all reap the benefits when they start being delivered.
Ameen
@@ffdv7458 most people didn't care about the invention of computers at the time
Look what happened anyway
Didn't think the B1M could get better. Keep it up Fred
Hahaha, thanks! We have some HUGE things planned this year!
When a British talks of violation of "sovereignty a nation" to India, it sounds nothing less than pathetic.
@@TheB1M you guys are awesome
Fred and team.
I agree 100%
I had no idea this was being built. It makes me feel good that so many countries have come together to build it. I am baffled how humans can build something so complicated.
Replace "complicated" with "stupid" and your comment is correct!
Tokamaks are stupid, and will NEVER produce power for humanity.
That much is obvious to any person who researched the topic.
Fools gold. we will blow our selves up before we take the next step in energy.
wtf , i didn't ask for that. if that blow up , i am dead and my family too
@@ulrickkamdem9728 good
@@ulrickkamdem9728 it is actually really really safe. if there is a containment breach the plasma will expand and cooldown to a point where fusion will stop basically instantly before any real damage is done
HEARD SOMEONE SAY THE BEST SEASON FOR A FINANCIAL BREAKTHROUGH IS NOW, ESPECIALLY WITH INFLATION RUNNING AT A FOUR-DECADE HIGH. I HAVE APPROXIMATELY $650k STAGNANT IN MY PORTFOLIO THAT NEEDS GROWTH. WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS DOWNTURN?
That's why we need to plan ourselves making extras in all we do because depending on paycheck that can give us our comfort and peace till we die is not guaranteed
I'm a nurse and I saw all this coming, so I've planned myself so I engaged in forex trading, little I know about the business though but so far so good, Forex trading has been my very means of savings lately while my salary goes for bills and utilities
Despite the huge drop in crypto and fx, I still make good withdrawals. I don't believe that profit making is not possible despite the drop in stocks when you got good mentorship
For real its very profitable
The stock market and crypto has plenty of opportunities to earn a decent payout, with the right skills and proper understanding of how the market works.
I visited the ITER site 14 years ago when it was basically a large field with a few construction vehicles and no structures. Amazing to see what it's become and what peaceful international collaboration can achieve.
:v
this is a bullcrap government program. thats why a single experiment needs a whole field of buildings
Lol peaceful??
Nothing?
@@blu3_enjoy what do you mean nothing? Are we watching different videos?
Such a goose bumps when they stated that multiply nations working together to achieve this ASAP. What a beautiful thing 😍👏🏼
You was totally in your element here Fred, good to see...very exciting times, fantastic job once again by you and the B1M team....👌🏿
Blows me away how you routinely out-perform Discovery Channel, History Channel, NOVA, etc. all these traditional outlets with your quality videos. High production, well-crafted script, informative... on and on. Been a fan for years, looking forward to the next one!
He probably has a lot of friends
I'm jealous of his life honestly
Well he doesn't strictly focus on aliens or ghosts. Looking at you history channel.
It's pop science with flashy useless graphics, of course it's gonna be easy content when you describe building it as legos, melodramatize it as a 'star', pepper the script with "basically"s and "kinda"s to sound more relatable and can't even be bothered to explain the difference between gas and plasma.
@@goldenhorde6944 you're not wrong.
@@goldenhorde6944 This channel is information enterntainment, of course its exaagerated and simplified. You framing this as a negative thing is disengenuous when hundreds of thousands of people now know about this project that didn't before, and have a basic understanding of the fundamentals of its operation.
You are not the target audience of this video.
My dad helped with the design for parts of this project. Specifically around 3:10 you can see the assembly platform he designed. It’s really cool to see my dads work in a B1M video ❤️
@@frank1fm634 are you Jacob's dad ?
That is really cool!
@Cool Baby aight
Nuclear is a waste of time... your dad should be working with hydrogen power plants and using an actual sustainable clean power source instead of a very dangerous power source with the capability for catastrophic failure..
@@dislikecounter6392 the world will change completely before we need to, so don't worry.
I love your channel so much Fred, and you just may be inspiring me to get back to making videos. I have over 200 career mentorship videos for engineering students and have been back in the engineering industry for two years. I am getting the TH-cam itch again and have been learning a looottttt about nuclear, concrete's role in our worldwide carbon footprint, how close we are to starting a Moon colony, etc. Hope to meet you one day!
As always, very informative and great content. 🥂 heres to more years for B1M
Next video:
We visited the international space station to check out the engineering!!
Haha, so up for that!
literally my thoughts. I wish to see this
@@TheB1M If you have enough money - it is possible now
We check in on the Mars Rover
What a brilliant video, both in its presentation but also message. It's so easy for us to condemn dirty energy, but it is the pursuit of solutions like this that will be the bringer of real, world-altering, change. Well done Fred and your team.
Great content. Really hope this project works as planned.
Nice to see you covering this project! It is so monumental both on an engineering level and on a potentially world changing way but so underrepresented and underreported in media when everyone is talking about clean energy.
Everyone of their publication always go under the radar, maybe with your coverage they’ll get a bit more visibility!
its because people are still in the 1970s mental state of "nuclear bad."
Is it really underreported? Experimental fusion reactors exist since decades and they will most likely not be commercially viable for just as long. It sadly won't be ready in time to address climate change
Not so "under" anything... this thing has been creeping along for decades. As for "clean energy", many many tones of fossil fuels have been burned making and transporting the thousands of tones of stuff to and around the site. And it is *not* designed to put energy into the grid. Nor is it licensed to do so -- it is an _experimental_ reactor. (they aren't 100% sure it's even going to work -- i.e. net positive.) If one counts the (massive) carbon footprint of building it, it'll take decades to break even. (much more so than "dirty" fission plants, which in the US takes years to build and go on to operate for 30-50-or more years. granted, if it works, it won't produce any radioactive waste, _but we have fission designs that don't, too_ -- nobody's making those either.)
I'd like it to work, and genuinely hope it does, but I expect we're still many generations away from cracking that nut. Stars achieve fusion through gravity, and sheer volume. There's no way we can create that sort of density on human scales.
I’m not sure about underreported. There is plenty of coverage for this topic. It just doesn’t make the headlines because progress is slow.
Well, these fusion experiments are still nowhere close to a Q total of 1, i.e the whole reactor breaking even. Then it has to produce a surplus of energy at a feasible price point. We don't even know if economically viable fusion is actually possible.
This brings back memories of my youth, working at a nuclear power plant and having assignments like working underneath the newly installed reactor on the sacrificial shield walls, the refueling pools, containment vessel and condenser units. What an amazing work environment for a new, 19 year old apprentice boilermaker! From a hundred feet below grade to hundreds of feet above- every day was a new opportunity to learn and improve my skills. After a lifetime of work across North America, I still get a chill down my spine when I see an exciting construction project like ITER.
Same here brother! As a young welder I worked on a nuke in TX welding big bore pipe supports, then they put me up near the polar crane rail,(900 feet above grade), welding supports to the inside of the containment. What really amazed me was the view of the people below looking like ants and that there were carpenters with big enough B**ls to build the ladders and the platform for me to work on safely. Dumbest thing the US did was to stop building nukes and the related components. When they were replacing main steam components it all had to be brought in from France. Spineless politicians on both sides caused that!
@@TexasRiverRat31254 Fascinating
You should tell your story... Fascinating...
How did you become engineer at 19
@@kor2597 I wasn’t an engineer. As I stated in my story, I was an apprentice boilermaker. I was in a craft union. Hope that clears that up for you.
Very informative, and nicely done video. The ingenuity behind this mega project gives me chills!!! Thanks Fred for letting us see the insides (and the future) of this engineering/science wonder!! 🙏🏻😇 more power to your channel.
I am in awe of what humans are capable of when they work together peacefully toward a common goal! The size and complexity of this project gives me chills, my mouth is open and I become speechless. As a safety professional I can not imagine the daily challenges in supervising and managing such a project. What an honor to work on this and participate in history that will change the future dramatically. Can’t wait for this technology to be developed.
Except there is no assurance that it will ever be made to work. It might utterly fail. Nobody knows.
it will change future dramatically but not in a good way, you are getting too exited my friend lol
@@weedylock could you elaborate?
@@weedylock elaborate how this is not going to be a good thing? If you're talking about weaponization of nuclear fusion, it's been done half a century ago.
Love seeing international projects such as this. Love seeing countries come together and do something good for humanity. More is needed.
How much fossil fuels were used in the construction, transport, and production of the materials. And after "decades" before the first viable watt of power is produced, how long will it take to offset all that carbon emisions into the atmosphere? Id bet no one is talking about those numbers, if they are even being collected. Looks like another globalist grift to feed construction companies, banks, univerities, and transportation companies decades worth of tax money.
Lmao politicians are in bed with lobbyists.
@@Forbidden-Pre-WorkoutI was thinking the same.
liberal fool
They took 22 billion dollars from humanity for this..
I never knew ITER idea started that long ago. Hope this incredible piece of mega-machine-structure achieve its intended goal. For that day that future would be a lot brighter, figuratively and literally.
yeah, it's impressive... Sadly we're still 30 years away from fusion power (like that joke says). No kidding. Hopefully this trend starts to truly diminish once ITER is up and running.
Currently planning first light in 2027 aswell, we're getting closer and closer!
Because America did not have technology and skills and didn't want spend money either, just like its space program - in the name of international but really to take over other's technology and control.
@@chriswestwood3289 Cry more
@@RM-el3gw I think that 30 years from now is even still a pipe dream. The extreme cost of building this experimental reactor that may produce more energy than it consumes shows just how difficult sustaining a fusion reaction is. It may also be that the cost of building a fusion reactor can never be paid by the power that it generates.
Fantastic video, I hope you can do this as a series to keep up to date with what’s going on every six months to a year.
It's worth saying that while fusion energy would be beyond revolutionary in many ways, fission is already essentially carbon free and with danger statistics generally in the same range as wind and solar power, despite "harmful" nuclear waste. Truthfully, if we built enough nuclear plants to sustain most of our energy needs right now, there wouldn't be all that much of an issue (certainly far less than the issues associated with using fossil fuels for power). The amount of waste produced would be quite manageable and so in many ways, fission is already capable of many benefits that fusion is often credited with, for the most part. Certainly not all- fusion energy as I said originally would be more than a revolution. As far as necessity dictates for our current energy situation though, fission would be sufficient if the general public stopped thinking nuclear waste was green goo and that reactors go off like atomic bombs when there is any minor error (they don't do that at all, it's impossible). While I love fusion and think it 100% deserves as much funding as it reasonable, fission could fix fossil fuels within the time that fusion might or might not only be proven, let alone turned into commercially viable energy plants. Fusion is the energy of the future, and right now we need to be using the energy of today--fission, wind, solar, etc--to get rid of the energy of the past, as soon as reasonably achievable.
Yep, Chernobyl fairly much screwed up fission for the rest of the world. It's cheap, almost green, and gives more than enough energy to last us a while.
@@hamisyum1016 nope. It’s Fukushima and nuclear weapon. When Chernobyl happened, the number of operating fission plants didn’t go down for the next few years, it was still increasing. The Western nations largely viewed Chernobyl as “those dirty Soviets with their inferior technology and intelligence have it coming, the superior West will never have such thing happen to us”. Only after Fukushima was there a dip in nuclear power generation around the world. The possibility of developing nuclear weapon from nuclear power also prevented many countries from having their own nuclear plant, which hampered the development of the nuclear power industry as a whole.
@@lc9245 Fair point, however where I live, Chernobyl is more commonly talked about than Fukushima.
@@hamisyum1016 Mostly because of Western propaganda which emphasises the failure of the perceived enemy and hides the failure of allies. Although Chernobyl was truly disastrous and an important lesson, it is more prominent in the media, strategically much less so, because of what I mentioned. Meanwhile, Fukushima empowered the anti-nuclear faction, because it occurred in the sophisticated and advance Japan which made it relevant to policymakers, combining with cheaper renewable, created the perfect storm for the death of nuclear power industry. I also attributed drastic actions to rising progressives politics, which made drastic policy changes more popular and acceptable.
@@lc9245 Ok. I don't know much about the topic. Thanks for giving me an inside into a different perspective.
Main members : China, EU , India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, USA.
Others: Australia, Canada, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Thailand, UK
at first i gawked at the 22 billion price tag but, after hearing the logistical and scientific challenges - I think 22 billion might be fairly cheap for such an endeavour. The optimist in me wishes we could throw even more money and manpower to expedite the process however much more we could.
It is especially since the US military pays $100 billion or more for new military jets
each member nation is granting money to domestic universities for research on each part that makes ITER
Its also over decades not just one lump sum. Harvard's endowment fund could pay for ITER.
The problem is what will successive commercial scale reactors cost? This $22 billion reactor will produce 500MW of electricity for just minutes at a time. It's purely experimental.
The proposed DEMO reactor could follow, which would actually produce useable energy for the grid, but it will have to be even bigger than ITER. It should be easier to build with all the lessons learned, but how much easier really? Could it ever get cheap enough to the point it's worth doing?
@@hydromic2518 For thousands of them, though
$400 billion is going to buy 2,500 F-35s which will be in service until at least 2070
Absolutely amazing....and the way you guys bring " concepts" accross to viewer's....is nothing short of fantastic...good luck to your channel... thanks for sharing...!!
I work at a fusion research lab, so cool to see a reactor finally being made
What projects do you think can be undertaken and achieved if fusion is achieved and we have non-exhaustive energy? How far can humanity go in technological advancement?
The best type of energy ever
I'm from Marseille (south France) i've been there and it is very impressive. One thing you didn't mention is that it's going to be the Heaviest manmade structure ever, relative to the size, there have been a huge levelling of the ground with deep steel tubes
look at all that machinery and components densley packed inside.
Never saw a building that big, and that denseley packed before lol.
@Zaydan Naufal I'm not sure, I think some of the soviet submarines perhaps. Perhaps some imploded ones on the sea bed too.
On a serious note, for its size there are a plenty of minature structures much denser. you'd have to have special parameters for this.
If they had told us more about the building and spent less time on superficial comments
The thing they quote it : "Hard" not Impossible, is what makes me positively excited
To be more clear, right now they're looking to make the fusion process energy positive at the reactor level, but that positive amount of energy still needs to be converted to electricity (such as via steam turbine), so that's like another order of magnitude efficiency increase that's required.
@@rayc1557 The process of producing cryogenic temperatures in itself produces a huge amount of heat- It isn't as doomy as you might think - simply the energy loss from the other systems would produce a decent energy output, provided the reaction is self maintaining and the reactor can survive to run for more than a few seconds intact.
@@carbon1255 k
Great to see you bring more attention to this, in comparison to renewable energies fusion research and the whole industry is quite underfunded so I hope this video brings peoples interest more to it!
Nuclear fusion research is underfunded compared with the fossil fuel industry. Intentionally or not, I'm not the one to speculate. What is clear, the world is highly dependent on oil for this moment in time.
There's a reason. It's always 20 years away. This will take too long to develop to prevent climate change. Renewables are seeing more investment because they work right now.
I think the cost of it and materials aren't helpful either, too much room for failure, probably makes it harder to fund and its quite a complex concept getting engineers behind it could also be a factor, I'm happy with the progress though truly amazing work.
Renewables energy is underfunded as well. Only Fossil Fuels and Nuclear fission are funded enough.
Fusion almost sounds too good to be true. 🧐Reminds me of perpetual motion devices 😂
I’ve been very lucky to visit a few nuclear reactors and other power stations with my university, and to this day I still can’t get the sheer scale of these monumental structures
Thank you B1M
As brilliant and crucial ITER is, its also sad to know that most people don't even know it exists. Thank you so much for doing your bit in sharing these incredible projects with the world.
nobody needs to know about it because it's just a psysics experiment. it's a prototype
@@namelastname4077 An experiment, perhaps, but one with readily apparent real-world boons. Wider public knowledge can only help, and if people cared more about where our electricity came from we wouldn't be destroying our atmosphere.
Lies again? Net Flix New Foodcourt
I wonder what happens when we have low cost energy? Would it lead to betterment, aside from yes, that it can produce power pretty much with no carbon at all essentially helping with the global warming scene.
The fossil-fuel billionaires and tech bro's will find a way to screw this up and extract even more wealth.
@@RoseJetExhaust Yes of course. As always. I am from Greece and here politicians are retarded as always. So i don't expect much for the next 5-10 years.
I hope it is going to be possible, but some of the most powerful people in the world still want fossil fuels because of the money. But I don’t hope it is going to be a problem
Its low cost energy for governments, not the people paying for the electricity.
I am also sceptical about low cost energy. The market will ultimately decide. And even if fusion will work in the future, will it be economically competitive with the current renewables?
I love this style of documentary’s🔥💪🏻 y’all gotta make more stuff like that. Definitely got urself a new subscriber haha
Update:
We just recently created a reaction that makes more energy that it takes to make a reaction.
THIS IS HUGE!!!
Been following ITER since learning about it in school 20 years ago (!) and I’m glad I will get to see this finally switch on soon and make a better world for our children
Well not exactly. ITER will never add power to the grid. Its a step toward that goal though.
And worth remembering that huge tokamak reactors aren't the only approach to fusion. There are other, smaller scale alternatives, like General fusions approach and First Light Fusions projectile approach who have just had a major breakthrough.
@@martinw245 First light fusion is simply a scam. They produced 50 neutrons using a dozen pounds of gunpower. It's simply ridiculous and there is no pathway to ignition or breakeven in such a scheme. A literal high school kid could build a Farnsworth fusor in their garage that would produce 100 times more neutrons from fusion continuously every second. First light is a grift to extract money from gullible clueless startup investors.
@@martinw245 oh yeah projectile fusion... I've been hearing a lot about First light within the last month but maybe that's because I live near to where they are located
@@foofung9961
First Light have just had their first confirmed fusion reaction. Lots of work to be done, but with billions being spent around the world and so many companies involved, I think the breakthrough will come.
I recall even the Lockeed Martin Skunk Works were working on a fusion reactor, not sure if they still are.
If you need something that big and expensive, you can't but question the viability of this endeavor. Even more so when you understand that this is only the first step, after ITER, they have to build DEMO, and then after DEMO they may or may not have plans for PROTO. But PROTO is the real one that produces net energy.
Geothermal energy has similar challenges, but it is more feasible, and once you start it, it's really free and really clean energy, just like solar but without the night problem. ITER needs tritium, and tritium is radioactive.
Don't miss Fred's live chat with the experts behind ITER at 4pm UK time today (11am eastern) - bit.ly/3rg1Q35
I just want to watch this, will it be uploaded at a later date?
We in Chernobyl reactor 4
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa Chernobyl used fission, big difference.
Why was there a silhouette of the Toronto skyline at 8:43? 🤔
WOW! What an awesome opportunity! Thank you
ITER is such a hope for the earth and humanity! Also, the video is an excellent summary of the project, great job!
I can't wait to see this happen 50 years from now! 🤗
This is just astonishing. My dad used to help design elements of fission reactors and would frequently visit Caderache (where ITER is situated). Since dad died back in the 1990s I have lost touch with developments, but this is amazing, especially when compared to the Culham JET project in the UK.
Such a great story. Sorry about your dad, he sounded cool.
I love reading thoughtful comments from accounts with usernames like "Horse Nuts"
The power of the sun in the palm of my hand
Didn't think the B1M could get better. Keep it up Fred. Didn't think the B1M could get better. Keep it up Fred.
So glad I found this channel
Right up my street and so brilliantly presented and explained
Very interesting
Congrats bro. You went from a small channel to getting invited to tour some of the most inspirational and influential construction projects on this planet. Proud of you.
If nuclear energy can be conquered, we will become much more advanced.
@UNO_____2️⃣2️⃣ no
We conquered nuclear energy decades ago. We can build efficient, safe, low waste fission reactors and manage the waste that they produce and that are considered as part of the renewable infra-structure but it seems that the 'developed' world has lost interest. Most likely because until recently, it was cheaper and easier to just buy our energy producing fuel from Russia.
@@L8ugh1ngm8n1 No but you see, we can't actually be decarbonizing the grid with proven tech that actually already produces already 10% of global electricity. We can't because... uh... we just can't ok ???
What we need to do is rely on intermittent sources and wait for 2100 for fusion to be scalable. Then Greenpeace can do a campaign to equate fusion with thermonuclear weapons and make sure no fusion plant is ever built.
@@L8ugh1ngm8n1 Ask the Ukrainians around Chernobyl how it felt conquering nuclear energy. There is a reason why so many Ukrainian children, even born today, are cancer patients.
@@VictorNewman201 Chernobyl wasn't anyone conquering nuclear energy it was an example of what happens when any industry is overseen by incompetence, lack of understanding, poor design, poor workmanship, lack of training and mis-information.
But more power to you for rolling out one of the oldest and most tired tropes against nuclear fission.
I'm subscribed to a lot of global news subreddits and follow our state media quite closely and never have I heard of that mega project. That's amazing!
great video guys! Thanks!
That "we have delivered" sticker on the side of the building must be a *massive* font
We need ITER now more than ever.
8 months later, and a research plant in the US has managed to produce net positive energy for the first time ever. Using a different method, and only for 4 microseconds, but it was accomplished all the same.
Fred, it would be very interesting seeing the affects of war on infrastructure and the sheer amount of rebuilding that needs to happen afterwards. Do you think B1M will have any videos on this in the future?
What a great topic request!
I second this! It gives a country the opportunity to revamp the way it's cities were designed before the war. I know Europe took that opportunity after WW2.
Russia is still involved in ITER. They didn't expell them nor remove any components made in Russia.
@@Ozymandias1 that's bad
@@oleksandrbyelyenko435 It might be bad, but its unavoidable, modern nuclear physics has more soviet input than the USA. Even the tokamak is a soviet design. You can't do this without Russian scientist's help.
I could literally not think of a better video. Thank you B1M, for bringing attention to this marvel of engineering, one of the greatest united human endeavors of our time
I can think of an endless list of better ways to invest research money. How in the world is fusion power ever going to be economic when the facility you need to achieve fusion power requires roads and bridges to rebuilt just so components can be brought to site! Yes, I'm sure things will get smaller and simpler but will they really get that much similar where they can compete with solar, wind and energy storage solutions? All of which are getting cheaper by the month as well. Fusion power in the 21st century feels like the Wright brothers proclaiming they will fly to Alpha Centauri after having completed their first flight across a grassy field in the 20th century. There's a world of difference between taking your first step and running a marathon at the Olympics. Love to see the billions spend of ITER have gone to things that will actually mitigate the climate crises.
Sorry but Hydrogen fuel cells and power plants are the answer to energy problems seeing as the majority of the world is made of water...
Nuclear is a waste of time and very dangerous with the potential to do serious harm as we have seen in the past..... nuclear fusion meltdowns would be even worse.
Only morons support nuclear power it is not sustainable and has horrible waste products which contaminate for ages....
Hydrogen fuel cells produce.. water... and run off oxygen and hydrogen..
Not to mention Hydrogen is ridiculously abundant on this planet no matter where you go......
More nuclear ☢️ energy globally.
@生活有滋有味 better then hydrocarbons
@生活有滋有味 😂
Exciting! I wish them luck with finishing the project! Sounds really important for the peaceful future.
what a great video! really well explained! fantastic job!
Your videos are of professional quality mate. Well done. Thank you.
Thank you so much!!
What do you mean? He is a professional :)
It’s not iTER like iPad but ITER (pronounced eater) … like the lady who was interviewed and actually works there said…. and how we call it on the continent… but ok… guess it’s the same with Wnglish and American pronounciation of IRAQ… right?
Your production quality and explanations is so good absolutely love these videos. 😍
see how the Nazi build the Gaz chambers, 'Kopff und Zonen' horros shows get hts, only freaks on TH-cam!
you’re content is lights out!
As a Chemical Engineer this Video is like a Treat for me.
Thanks... 🙏🙏
How have I never heard of this before?
Thanks for bringing this out to everyone who didn't know!
There seems to be more of an effort to focus on how tribal people can be rather than this which shows how if we can work together we can solve so many of our problems.
Very well explaining such a complicated yet interesting topic
So brilliant and wonderful ,love to see so many countries coming together to do do something great and useful such humanity ❤
The complexity in terms of scope, engineering and project coordination gobsmacks my mind..
Absolutely incredible.
Delighted for you Fred, that you could tell us (with such genuine enthusiasm and excitement) this story of wonder and hope. Showing us as you always do on this channel what amazing things we can create, especially when we collaborate.
Simply Great work.
I love who humble the manager is : "I'm the grand master of this'
Oh, I love ITER and always follow the construction progression. I'm from Padua and here we have a part of the project with the tests MITICA and SPIDER. Thanks to share this project with all of your follower!
I'm actually so happy for Fred to be able to enjoy these sites and projects in real life. this channel has had a massive and truely deserved growth, keep it up :)
Just awe inspiring. Wow. Hope I'm around to see it come to fruition.
I work in and love the construction industry! Your focus on transformative projects that were unbeknownst to me brought me to your channel. However, your thought-provoking, down to earth, and human focused perspectives is why I'm a subscriber for life.
8-year old me that discovered nuclear energy in old Yugoslavian encyclopedia is sheading tears of joy inside of 37-year old me, who can't believe how much good stuff you managed to squeeze in less than 10 minutes. This proect, among with other fusion attempts, is the epithomy of everything science and engineering should be about - ambitious, immense projects with an obvious purpose of eleveting our existence and pushing human kind further.
Best TH-cam channel, by far. Fred, you are a gem.
Great to see you presenting on camera! Had no idea this emormous project was taking place. Thanks for the info.
Worked on the ITER project for a couple of years. Fantastic science experiment, not such a great model for a future power plant. Smaller, higher pressure, spherical tokamaks are the most economical approach in my opinion.
Being from the south of France, I was raised knowing that ITER was right there and I've always been amazed and a little scared of what was happening nearby! So cool to see that the future is in good hands.
Those good news show that humans are resilients and not only bad things are happening in this world!
I only have one complaint. I wish you would do a series on this. Break down all the different systems and engineering challenges and do a video on each of them. Then check out different companies who are also trying to produce fusion energy. This is so big and so important to literally everyone on this planet.
There are many other videos covering this topic on TH-cam and I doubt they have the time and resources to create an entire series on this technology. It’s also worth remembering that they aim to keep these videos as accessible as possible so going into great depth is unlikely.
It would be an unending series of videos as Fusion is so unworkable that one system has to be built on top of another system to try to get a work-around for the problem introduced by the last sytem. And still it will be "50 years off" from a functional reactor in 50 years, just like it was 50 years ago.
Love how Fred is clearly geeking out while being there haha. This video is especially important because it gets people excited about the FUTURE! These kinds of narratives are more impactful than we give them credit for I think...
fantastic video, outstanding host! really enjoyed this a great deal.
Very impressive project, with multiple nation involvement.
That is called real "engeneering Marvel". That's why I love engeneering so much ..
the production quality of B1M only rises, this is beautiful
Humanity coming together to solve an existential problem for a future more fantastic than anything before it.. More of this, please.
As as the moment, Fusion also produces radioactive isotopes as it needs Tritium which are currently produced in Fission nuclear reactors.
We won't see fusion in commercial scale probably for the next 40-50 years, hence for now the Fission is plenty ok to fight climate change. Nuclear waste can be used to power fast neutrons reactors, which do exists already.
The only issue with Nuclear fission is just how people see it. But it's nothing dangerous or dirt as people think it is. Actually, you end up using lesser materials and lesser land than you would otherwise need with renewables.
I'm reading that Tritium requires a reactor to produce, but Deuterium is extracted from sea water. But you probably have better sources than my quick search upturned...
@@nmarbletoe8210 yes you are absolutely right, I will correct my comment, thanks 🙏
It's amazing what we can accomplish when we work together !!
So awesome! Thank you for showing us all some of the most amazing projects in the world and explaining them so comprehensive and concisely!
I love the idea that all countries in the world are working together on this...
I love and respect all the information and details on your video. Thank you for explanation
Really inspiring! Thanks for working so hard to take us places we can only imagine otherwise.
Wow this channel is really going places! Can't believe how far you've come even in just a year or so since I've been watching.
Thats so freaking cool OMFG, Im just speechless. The power of a tiny star!!!
It always amazes me what humans can do when they come together and priorities are in order . Beautiful when we work together for the betterment of humankind.
You sounded so proud to be presenting this. I remember school science telling me that fusion wasn't even possible, so I never expected to hear about it in my lifetime.
Who told you that? Bruh, that school is something
@@ZettyLad I mean theoretically possible, but it wasn't possible to create it.
I know someone who works for ITER and i'm really envious of him and not just because he now lives in the south of France :)
What is his take on how long this is still going to take? Can't imagine they get it done 2025
Good work keep it up 👍🏻
Gorgeous!
B1M continues to be one of the most informative and best produced channel on TH-cam!
Since I took up interest about nuclear fusion in 1989, I've been following with keen interest on the developments in the field thus far. And then I came across this most excellent, instructional presentation. Thank you.
How do you get energy out of it?
@@ckh420 They haven't got to that part yet - hence my interest in fusion. Until they can stabilize the plasma inside the donut, you can't get energy out of it. Say they stabilize the plasma. It's my guess they'd have to come up with some heat transfer process. specifically, I assume they'd opt for steam turbines - with water being plentiful and steam technology being well demonstrated.
It's always boiling water
Need more of this please