Findings

The hottest power snack of ESOF08 was certainly the Tokamak doughnut. Modeled closely on the toroidal reactor vessel, or tokamak, of a nuclear fusion reactor, and engineered by Fusion for Energy, the organization procuring the European components of the global ITER fusion reactor project, the doughnuts were baked at a slightly lower temperature than the 100 million degrees typical inside the real thing. The limited edition snacks were disappearing fast from the Fusion for Energy stall this morning, perhaps because of concern among delegates that, with the US budget for ITER axed in fiscal year 08, they may not get another chance soon.

--Daniel Clery