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17 Nov 2025

The diagnostic systems are really one of the keys to how we do this effectively, because you need to be able to tell the system, “We’re going to trigger electrical current, and we’re going to do it in a microsecond, and we need to know if it’s working right.

“The diagnostic systems are really one of the keys to how we do this effectively, because you need to be able to tell the system, “We’re going to trigger electrical current, and we’re going to do it in a microsecond, and we need to know if it’s working right.”

Speaker: David Kirtley
Episode: #485 – David Kirtley: Nuclear Fusion, Plasma Physics, and the Future of Energy
Publisher: Lex Fridman Podcast

David Kirtley

What David said.

We use that to do design work, and then also to try to understand how we think the machine will run.

The diagnostic systems are really one of the keys to how we do this effectively, because you need to be able to tell the system, “We’re going to trigger electrical current, and we’re going to do it in a microsecond, and we need to know if it’s working right.