ITER - A BUILDING WORTH OF 25 BILLION US $

Content Credit: Tahil Dhingra, INDIA

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor - the second-most-expensive building in the world (total construction cost 25.00 billion US$).

Director-General of ITER -Bernard Bigot

↠ Everything You Need To Know About WW II ↞

Well, If you are not aware of ITER and you came across this term for the very first time don't worry just go through the following article. ITER is the most ambitious science endeavor at present.

Before Getting Into ITER Just Read Out The Following Two Terms : -

Nuclear fission -

Nuclear fission is a process in which the nucleus of an atom is split into two or more smaller nuclei.

Nuclear fusion -

Nuclear fusion is the process of making a single heavy nucleus from two light nuclei.

Nuclear Fission produces a lot of nuclear waste which can not be disposed of easily.

Fusion, on the other hand, does not create any long-lived radioactive nuclear waste. A fusion reactor produces helium, which is an inert gas.

ITER is an international nuclear fusion project to make a nuclear fusion reactor which will be the world's largest magnetic confinement Plasma physics reactor. It is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor that is being built in the southern part of France. A tokamak is a device that uses a powerful magnetic field to confine hot plasma in the shape of a torus(ring type shape). The tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled Thermonuclear fusion power.

The ITER Members -  China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States are now engaged in a 35-year collaboration to build and operate the ITER experimental device and together bring fusion to the point where a demonstration fusion reactor can be designed. India is a full partner of the project with a 9.3 percent share in it. Indian engineers will fabricate the world's largest high vacuum cold storage vessel for an ambitious international project to generate energy from a process that powers the sun.

↠ How Many Continents Do We Have? ↞

The ITER  Thermonuclear reactor has been designed to produce a fusion plasma equivalent to 500 megawatts (MW) of thermal output power for around twenty minutes while 50 megawatts of thermal power are injected into the tokamak fusion nuclear reactor.

Objective of ITER

The goal of ITER is to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy for peaceful use. It is the largest of more than 100 fusion reactors built since the 1950s. It is likely to be in working mode by 2035.