ITER - the way to new energy
Conceived at the very frontier of what is possible to design, manufacture, and assemble, the ITER device— a tokamak —will be the world’s largest and most powerful, capable of creating a “little star” on Earth. It all starts in 1985…. ITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today.
The ITER Organization
The ITER Organization is an intergovernmental organization that was created by an international agreement signed in 2006, and formally established on 24 October 2007 after its ratification by all Parties. The Parties to the ITER Agreement (the ITER Members) are the People's Republic of China; the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom); the Republic of India; Japan; the Republic of Korea ...
Facts & Figures - ITER
The latest figures are in: 216,836 people have visited the ITER site since work began in 2007 to clear and level land for the future scientific installation. The year 2023 was the strongest on record, with 25,081 people welcomed on site. Visits are open to all (more information here).
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 carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars. The experimental campaign that will be carried out at ITER is ...
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 purposes was proposed by General Secretary Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union to US President Ronald Reagan. One year later, an agreement was reached: the ...
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 construction, operation and decommissioning, and also share in the experimental results and any intellectual property generated by the project. Twenty years of collaborative research experiments are planned on the ...
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, when the ITER Organization obtained licensing as a nuclear operator in France, the ITER fusion device became the first in the world to have successfully ...
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 the USA to jointly pursue the design for a large international fusion facility, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Loading.
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 only one piece of the puzzle. To harness fusion as a practical energy source, several key challenges must be addressed.
Videos
More than 300 videos are available through the ITER video library below. Use the drop down list to select the category that interests you or select All Videos and search by key word. The video page opens by default to What is ITER?—a selection of introductory videos to the ITER Project. 27 video (s) found.