Introduction!

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?

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?

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

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.