Dennis Whyte

It's going to take, it's basically electrical engineering, computer, so you understand how it goes together, what happens.

Computational engineering to model this very complex integrated thing.

Materials engineering, because you're pushing materials to their limit with respect to stress and so forth.

It takes cryogenic engineering, which is sort of a sub-discipline, but cooling things to extremely low temperatures.

There's probably some kind of chemistry thing in there too.

Well, actually, yeah, which tends to show up in the materials.

And that's just one of the sub-components of it.

Like, almost everything gets hit in this, right?

And you're also in a very integrated environment, because in the end, all these things, while you isolate them from each other in a physics sense, in an engineering sense, they all have to work, like, seamlessly together.

So it's one of those, I mean, in my own career, I've basically done atomic physics and

Spectroscopy, plasma physics, ion etching, so this includes material science, something called MHD, magnetohydrodynamics, et cetera.

And now all the way through, I'm not even sure how many different careers I've had.

By the way, this is also a recruiting stage for young scientists thinking to come in.

My comment to scientists is if you're bored in fusion, you're not paying attention because there's always something interesting to go and do.

So that's a really important part of what we're doing, which isn't new in fusion, actually.

In fact, it's in the roots of what we've done at MIT.

But holy cow, the proximity.

Of possibility of commercial fusion is the new thing.

You know, so my catchphrase is, like, you might be wondering, like, why weren't we doing all these things?

Like, why weren't we pushing towards economic fusion and new materials and new methods of heat extraction and so forth?