General Atomics Internship 2015-2016
A blog about my Junior year internship at General Atomics! Includes reflections, day to day things, and pictures of my experiences. (Although, my gallery is limited, GA has a strict no photo policy.)
For the last week of internship, I have been spending time shadowing people to see what sparked my interest. I decided to work on a project regarding nuclear fusion. General Atomics is currently making the magnets for magnetic containment in the ITER tokamak.(Which is being built in southern France through collaboration of several countries, including the US. ) On Friday morning, I will be touring a tokamak to learn more about fusion.
I have been studying nuclear fusion as a commercial energy source and paid special interest into ITER, as it will be the largest tokamak in the world. It will be capable of demonstrating the feasibility of nuclear fusion as a commercial energy source. When I feel like I am knowledgeable enough on nuclear fusion (and fission, as well as current means of energy production), I will begin writing my paper detailing fusion, comparing fusion and fission (fission is the current means of nuclear energy. It works by splitting atoms.), the importance of the ITER tokamak in comparison to other tokamak projects, the history of nuclear fusion, and the roadblocks that have or may occur throughout the building process. Some places I found an abundance of information from are: http://136.142.82.187/eng12/Chair/pdf/5147.pdf -the most important parts of a fusion reactor. http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Current-and-Future-Generation/Nuclear-Fusion-Power -very informative page about current projects in nuclear fusion and their dilemmas/goals. http://www.iter.org/http://iter.org -ITER's website, full of information regarding the ITER and JET project, as well as information regarding the development of the DEMO project.
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