BBC – Iter: The world’s most expensive scientific gamble?
BBC – Iter: The world’s most expensive scientific gamble?
By Paul Henley, BBC’s Europe reporter | 12 December 2011 – 19:11
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) is no quick fix for the world’s energy problems. Not even its staunchest supporters would argue that.
What Iter aims to do is demonstrate that nuclear fusion can eventually be commercially viable.
At no stage will the reactor under construction provide power to the French national grid, or anyone else’s. That outcome is an optimistic one and still a long way off.
But for now, there is international co-operation on an almost unprecedented scale. As well as the European Union, Russia, the United States, Japan, China, India and South Korea are all contributing in kind with products and expertise.
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