What is a tokamak? - ITER
The tokamak is an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion; inside a tokamak, a fusion plasma is created and confined by strong magnetic fields. The energy …
Advantages of fusion - ITER
The following advantages make fusion worth pursuing. Abundant energy: Fusing atoms together in a controlled way releases nearly four million times more energy than a chemical reaction …
In a Few Lines - ITER
In southern France, 33 nations* are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and …
Making it work - ITER
ITER is designed to achieve and sustain fusion reactions at a scale that will enable the study of a controlled "burning" (self-heating) plasma. However, achieving sustained fusion reactions is …
ITER in France
The local governments around ITER have also been strongly implicated in the project from the site negotiations phase. The General Councils from the six départements closest to ITER …
ITER Members
As signatories to the ITER Agreement, the ITER collaboration Members China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States will share in the cost of project …
What will ITER do?
ITER will provide a unique opportunity to test mockup in-vessel tritium breeding blankets in a real fusion environment. 5) Demonstrate the safety characteristics of a fusion device. In 2012, …
On The Road to ITER
October 1986. At the Reykjavik (Iceland) US-USSR Summit on 11-12 October 1986, an agreement is reached between the European Union (Euratom), Japan, the Soviet Union and …
History - ITER
The ITER story. ITER was set in motion at the Geneva Superpower Summit in November 1985, when the idea of a collaborative international project to develop fusion energy for peaceful …
What is Fusion? - ITER
Over billions of years, the gravitational forces at play in the universe have caused the hydrogen clouds of the early universe to gather into massive stellar bodies. In the extreme density and …