ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor Bringing a Sun to Earth
This book provides for the first time an insider’s view into ITER, the biggest fusion reactor in the world, which is currently being constructed in southern France. Aimed at bringing the “energy of the stars” to earth, ITER is funded by the major economic
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The Giant Fusion Reactor ITER:
Bringing a Sun to Earth
ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor
Michel Claessens
ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor Bringing a Sun to Earth
Michel Claessens European Commission Bruxelles, Belgium
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Foreword by Daniel Clery
I first visited the ITER site in the autumn of 2009. There were many p eople working there, beavering away in temporary office buildings while their glossy new headquarters took shape nearby. People came and went: national delegations, scientists, engineers, nuclear regulators, suppliers. But up a steep bank behind those busy offices, the actual construction site where the great machine would be built was desolate. On this bleak expanse of gravel and puddles, a kilometre long and half as much wide, nothing was happening— as if a giant had built a court for pétanque, the bowls game popular across France, but no other giants had turned up to play. It was 3 years on from the handshakes and backslapping that accompanied the signing of the ITER agreement that fired the project’s starting gun. Yet its new managers had decided to take another long and detailed look at the reactor’s design. Tensions were running high, among its backers, who wanted more progress, among scientists, who wanted results, and among engineering companies who wanted a piece of the action. But delays proliferated and ITER seemed to be demonstrating the maxim that has always dogged fusion: that it’s the energy of the future and always will be, or some variation o
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