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Sep 21, 2020 · Chief Scientist Tim Luce against the backdrop of the ITER Tokamak Building, with the vacuum vessel of what could be the first attempt at building a tokamak outside the USSR in the late 1960s. ''Using a pipe bender, two postdocs at MIT made this perfect torus.
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Tim Luce is an American physicist who has worked in the field of magnetic confinement fusion for over 40 years. He spent 30 years at General Atomics, primarily conducting experiments in plasma heating, energy confinement, and operating scenario development on the DIII-D tokamak there, but also as a visiting researcher in laboratories in Europe, ...
When it becomes functional the Tokamak at ITER will be the hottest place with a temperature of over 100 million degrees Celsius. Dr Tim Luce, Chief Scientist...
Feb 10, 2022 · Tim Luce, head of science and operation at ITER, said the project emerged in the 1980s from talks on nuclear disarmament between US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
Feb 14, 2022 · Tim Luce, Chief ITER Scientist and head of Science & Operations: "The potentiality of fusion power was shown in the first D-T campaign (1997) but that wasn't suitable for operating a power plant; we needed something that lasted.
Aug 1, 2023 · But he and Tim Luce, ITER’s head of science and operation, say the work can be done in parallel with the machine’s assembly and won’t necessarily further delay the project schedule. “We don’t need all nine sectors to begin to assemble the vacuum vessel. We need the first three,” says Luce.
