Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks to engineers and scientists during a visit to Tokamak Energy in Abingdon. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00There's a lot of people for you to meet, but firstly I'd like to introduce Hanna.
00:06Hello Hanna, I'm Rachel.
00:07Otto.
00:08Otto, hello, hi, nice to meet you.
00:10Welcome to the SD4D control room.
00:12Yeah, so what's going on in here?
00:14It's ten times hotter than Los Angeles, so that's kind of a wonderful way of experiencing it.
00:20Making that reaction happen inside our tokamak.
00:23The concept that we are using is a tokamak, so it's a spherical device, almost like a
00:29hard apple, and we're using magnets to keep this super heated gas that turns into a plasma
00:34as you heat it.
00:36So yeah, it's a very small device for what it's achieved.
00:39And how long have you worked here Hanna?
00:41Three and a half, three years nearly.
00:43Right, okay.
00:44And sorry, how long has the business been?
00:46We're in our fifteenth year.
00:48And have teams that have actually designed, built and upgraded this device as we push
00:53it through its additional phases.
00:56It's a lot bigger than SD4D.
00:59Equivalent with the infrastructure around it, equivalent to an SMR type.