Published on 12, July, 2020
Hello, I am new here!
I am Alexandrine, 33yo, living in Oxford. Occupations are Electrical design engineer in the research for nuclear fusion energy and local politician.
I have been diagnosed last year. My special interests are activism to set the world right, video games, and medical stuff.
Still a bit struggling with acceptance, kinda sad to not be able to fit it as I am very aware of my difficulty and it has a toll on my mental health. Working from home has been a blessing but social events on Zoom are a harsh reminder of reality. But that's life I guess.
Anyway, happy to be in touch with whoever want to !
Welcome aboard!
I'm a fusion enthusiast - I was looking to move to the JET and MAST projects a few years ago. I took an early retirement package instead. What are you into?
I was only diagnosed in my early 40s - it's easy to hide in plain sight in the high-tech industries.
Oh we could have been colleagues then, nice to meet you
I visited a few times - I had some colleagues who went to work there for the MAST upgrade a few years ago and another went to work on keeping JET going - just at the point where they were making decisions on its future - tickle it along keeping the dose levels down for the maintenance or thrash it for the data but that would make entry into the toroid much more difficult.
I went all around MAST when it was in bits and stood on top of the big 'bean tin' chamber during the rebuild.
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He's probably talking about a Tesla Coil - lots of high voltage sparks - very steam-punk!
The stuff I was playing with uses vacuums better than space and magnetic fields larger than the Earth's and Mega-Watt power supplies. Proper Big Boy's Toys!
I think he may have tried to make a mini one of those at some point. He asked me to take him to b&q and Maplins so he could buy a load of stuff that sounds vaguely similar to springs / coils / accelerator - I'll ask him and get back to you
Nice, I'm a CEng too
Then I think we probably know a lot of the same people - I was a CEng for a large radio-pharmacuetical company until 2015 when I took an early retirement package..
NAS71069 said:What's a cyclotron
It's a compact accelerator that uses an expanding spiral principle rather than the big ring (a synchrotron) so the 35-miles of accelerator tube can be coiled into a small space that fits into a single room - with 2-metre thick walls of super-dense concrete.
Yes, I coordinate the electrical work for JET and involved with a few projects to upgrade MASTU
Ha, no, unfortunately not, but he learned a lot about how to disassemble and reassemble electrical items from our local dump - TVs, dvd players, video recorder, etc And he used a lot of tape i took him to see the Hadron Collider in Geneva, but he was only 8 and they wouldn't let him actually go down to it frustratingly, so we had to satisfy ourselves with the planetarium and the visitors gift shop! Maybe we'll go back one day What's a cyclotron?
Did he succeed? I used to run cyclotrons - if you want to full-on 'mad scientist' stuff, I was surrounded by it all!
That looks impressive...and vaguely resembles something my son built in our garage many years ago He was trying to build a time machine