Iter Fiasco Will Accelerate The Progress Of Fusion. The International Torus Experimental Reactor (ITER), a gigantic tokamak fusion device, has been hailed as the greatest single cooperative scientific ...

Jointly conceived by rival powers in the Cold War’s final years, Iter is an ambitious feat of science and engineering. But as fragile alliances fracture once more, will geopolitics block a path to ...

Nuclear fission power plants have been online since the 1950s, while fusion is still to be achieved at any great scale, although several dozen experimental fusion projects are underway around the ...

melgross [/url]":2npqss39]Unfortunately, with Brexit, the future of ITER is now in doubt. I'm not saying that it will stop, but it's expected that it will slow down even more, at least. The British ...

A ceremony was held yesterday within the ITER Assembly Hall to mark the official start of the assembly of the tokamak fusion device of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor at Cadarache ...

Steady progress is advancing in plans for combatting damaging disruptions in experiments that aim to bring to Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars. That was the key finding of the ...

Contracts for the construction of seven key buildings, plus a contract for the power supply for a plasma heating system, and progress on the manufacture of a major component signal an acceleration in ...

French officials with the nation’s nuclear regulatory body have ordered the ITER organization to stop construction of its humongous tokamak reactor while it addresses safety concerns over its assembly ...

ST. PAUL-lez DURANCE, France—Rolling hills and oak woodlands dominate rural Southern France. However, about 35km north of Aix-en-Provence, nature has given way to a team of 1,000 construction workers ...