Tokamaks

Tokamaks
Research Cost: 25000
Summary
A new generation of toroidal fusion reactors and drives relying on magnetic confinement methods.
Description
Our earlier successes with magnetic confinement fusion relied on massive magnetic mirrors arrayed in a line. While functional, the mass limited its capabilities as a long-range propulsion system. Our next step is to develop tokamaks, a Russian term for reactors that contain the fusion plasma within a magnetic torus. Holding high-energy plasma within magnetic fields has been likened to using wet spaghetti to hold melting gelatin, but with sufficient computer-aided management of the fields, we have been able to induce a net energy gain and can begin developing new propulsion systems that make use of it.
Full List of Prerequisites. Name Type Cost Magnetic Plasma Confinement 35000 High-Temperature Superconductors 40000 Magnetic Force Manipulation 2500 Advanced Electromagnetism 1000 Photonic Computing 1500 Applied Artificial Intelligence 25000 Advanced Superconductors 3500 Advanced Carbon Manipulation 1000 Nuclear Fusion Methodologies 50000 Superconducting Magnets 10000 Advanced Atomic Manipulation 10000 Advanced Heat Management Concepts 2500 Advanced Neural Networks 5000 Mission To Space 250 Quantum Computing 15000 Deep Space Propulsion Concepts 1000 Nuclear Fission In Space 2500
Total Research Cost (including itself)
	63500		46500
	0		64500
	0		0
	56250	Total	230750
Direct Prerequisite For
Techs		Projects
		(100%)Fusion Tokamak I
Quote
"Tell me what we need to send more people further, faster. Otherwise we'll be stuck playing defense forever - and that's just a slow way to lose." Commander Fiona Ayouade, The Resistance Attending a technical design briefing for the UK space program
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