International participants confirm their commitment to the ITER project.

What is ITER?

ITER is a giant, 5 billion (US$6 billion) machine designed to prove that fusion power can work. It will use magnetic fields to confine hydrogen isotopes and heat them to hundreds of millions of degrees Celcius. If all goes well, the isotopes will fuse together — producing some 500 megawatts of power in the process.

Read the briefing here.

International participants confirm their commitment to the ITER project.

What is ITER?

ITER is a giant, 5 billion (US$6 billion) machine designed to prove that fusion power can work. It will use magnetic fields to confine hydrogen isotopes and heat them to hundreds of millions of degrees Celcius. If all goes well, the isotopes will fuse together — producing some 500 megawatts of power in the process.

Read the briefing here.