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.