The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. In southern France, no less than 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest tokamak – a magnetic fusion device designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.
Fusion is a potential source of safe, non-carbon emitting and virtually limitless energy. Harnessing fusion’s power is the goal of ITER, which has been designed as the key experimental step between today’s fusion research machines and tomorrow’s fusion power plants. ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy.
It will also be the first fusion device to maintain fusion for long periods of time, and the first to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity.
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