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by _Microft 930 days ago
Time lapse of the assembly of Wendelstein 7-X:

https://www.ipp.mpg.de/1727365/zeitraffer_w7x

This is the assembly of Wendelstein 7-X, also over the span of a decade. It is a stellarator-type test reactor in Germany. Stellarators offer the advantage of possibly continous operations while tokamaks need to be pulsed but that necessitates a lot of contorted coils.