The Indian Express – 30-member Indian team part of ‘second biggest scientific adventure’
The Indian Express – 30-member Indian team part of ‘second biggest scientific adventure’
By Maneesh Chhibber | 16 April 2012 – 00:59 hrs
It is the “second-biggest scientific adventure ever” and India is one of the few countries that have lead role in it.
At a 180-hectare site near the Cadarache nuclear research facility in France, scientists from India and some other countries are trying to find an answer to what is one of the biggest challenges for the future: finding a solution to the looming energy crisis by channelising the energy produced in a nuclear fusion reaction. Christened the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the experiment is still at a “very early stage”.
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