This week, ITER, the world’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion facility, announced the beginning of the peak construction phase for its Toromak complex. Located in Catarache, France, the project’s workforce will reach 5,000 workers as construction begins. ITER’s research is crucial as fusion energy promises clean, safe, and abundant energy. From the article:

 “Announced at the Royal Academy of Engineering annual awards at Battersea Power Station last night (Wednesday), the project which began as a theoretical idea in the mid-1980s, has approved €1.8bn of component contracts to date, of a total of €4bn for the build phase.

It is the first infrastructure and engineering project that is a truly global collaboration, where countries including China, France, South Korea, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US are all involved in the consortium.”

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