If you thought rapid prototyping was mostly relevant for developing consumer goods, seemingly miscellaneous valves, or even the occasional superbike and would never play a role in completely altering the way we manufacture energy on this planet, you’ll want to hear what they’re doing over at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being built in St. Paul-lez-Durance, France.
Imagine planning out a one thousand ton, 60 foot stack of magnets and superconducting niobium-3-tin cables that will be a part of the plasma chamber for an enormous nuclear fusion reactor — something that will, hypothetically, produce 500 megawatts of output power.…
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