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Source: Perry Newhook
Reply-to: pnewhook@spar.ca
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Just wanted to let people know about Spar Aerospace's 
recent OS/2 project.

OS/2 will play a part in the world's nuclear fusion 
program. For those who do not know, fusion (as opposed to 
today's fission reactors) is a relativly safe method of 
extracting nuclear energy. In the fusion reactor, 
superconducting magnets generate a 6 Tesla magnetic field 
that contains and levitates a torus of fusion plasma hotter 
than the surface of the sun. Tritium and deuterium are 
injected into the plasma at a rate of 300 km/second and are 
reacted with the plasma using a high power laser. Unlike 
the current fission reactors, fusion reactors cannot 
achieve a runaway condition and are therefore inherently 
safer.

OS/2 Warp 4 (a trimmed down version), is the operating 
system controlling a Duct Vehicle Maintenance System, 
designed to unbolt and remove the cryostat closure plate, 
deploy sections of radial rail, unbolt, cut and remove the
vacuum vessel closure plate, and deploy a second rail 
section to access the divertor cassette. The duct vehicle 
system consists of a vehicle, a manipulator, a rail handler 
and tools.

OS/2 running on two computers, provides the fail safe real 
time control and monitoring on one machine, and the 
real-time operator interface and virtual 3D display on 
another. The vehicle system is currently being installed in 
the ITER test reactor in Brasimone Italy.

Any questions on this development program can be directed
to myself at the address below:

Perry Newhook, P.Eng
Spar Space Systems
Spar Aerospace Limited
http://www.spar.ca
pnewhook@spar.ca


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