The truly huge International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) has arrived its years-long assembly phase. The fusion reactor has millions of distinctive parts that will eventually form the world’s largest tokamak, a plasma reactor was extremely hot, charged plasma creates the conditions necessary for atoms to fuse and release considerable amounts of energy.
The groundbreaking multinational experiment, known as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), has seen components arrive in the tiny commune of Saint-Paul-Les-Durance from production sites worldwide in recent months.
French President Emmanuel Macron, in a recorded address, spoke on Tuesday of the project’s potential.
“Imagine, if the experience works, if it can find industrial applications, we will have developed a non-polluting, carbon-free, safe and almost waste-free energy, that will simultaneously meet the needs of all areas of the globe and meet the climate challenge and preserve natural resources,” he said.
The project involves international collaboration, which PM said it is a perfect symbol of Indian belief ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ which means the world is one family. The project is located in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, Provence, southern France.
Nuclear fusion occurs when two atoms combine to form a new atom and a neutron
The atoms are fired into a plasma where extreme temperatures overcome their repulsion and force them together
The fusion releases about four times the energy produced in atom-splitting nuclear fission, per gramme of fuel.
