ITER Project
*What is ITER? 🤔 * 🔖 * ITER * (originally the * International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor * ) is an international * nuclear fusion *☢️ research and engineering megaproject, which will be the * world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment * . 🔖 It is an experimental * tokamak * nuclear fusion reactor that is being built next to the * Cadarache facility in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, in Provence, southern France. *🇫🇷* WHAT IS FUSION? * Fusion is the energy source of the Sun ☀️and stars✨. In the tremendous heat and gravity at the core of these stellar bodies, hydrogen nuclei collide, fuse into heavier helium atoms and release tremendous amounts of energy in the process. WHAT IS A TOKAMAK? The tokamak is an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion. Inside a tokamak, the * energy produced through the fusion of atoms is absorbed as heat in the walls of the vessel. * Just like a conventional power plant...