ITER, St Paul lez Durance
An overview of the ITER project will be presented together with other major projects within the worldwide Fusion programme, especially IFMIF (The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility). IFMIF is a high intensity deuteron accelerator for material irradiation research with a prototype to be constructed in Japan by an international team. ITER is the worlds largest Tokamak under construction in Cadarache (France), with seven parties (China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the US) contributing ninety percent of the project In-Kind. These two major activities together with the upgrade of the Japanese Tokamak JT-60SA as well as the development of a worldwide platform for fusion research are the pillars of research to develop Fusion as a realistic source of energy for the future.
