ITER is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project intended to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power, under construction near the Cadarache research center in southern France since 2013. It is expected to achieve first plasma in 2033 to 2034, at which point it will be the world's largest fusion reactor, with a plasma volume about six times that of Japan's JT-60SA, previously the largest tokamak.
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SignificanceITER has already been described as the most expensive science experiment of all time, the most complicated engineering project in human history, and one of the most ambitious human collaborations since the development of the International Space Station 1 Connections
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1. ITER (Wikipedia)
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Construction of the ITER complex in France started in 2013, and assembly of the tokamak began in 2020.
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ITER has already been described as the most expensive science experiment of all time, the most complicated engineering project in human history, and one of the most ambitious human collaborations since the development of the International Space Station
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ITER is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project intended to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power, under construction near the Cadarache research center in southern France since 2013.
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ITER (originally an acronym for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, and also meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project designed to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion power.
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