The power of fusion
Devangshu Datta wrote an article in Business Standard about fusion power’s potential. He provides a basic explanation of how fusion works, and some brief history of how countries from around the world came together and agreed to build peaceful fusion power. He then goes on to give an overview of the ITER experiment. From the article:
ITER aims to build a massive Tokamak, 10 times the volume of anything in operation and weighing around 23,000 tonnes. The ITER Tokamak will produce temperatures of well over 100 million Celsius – many times hotter than the centre of the sun.
It is supposed to have a net surplus power output. The building site, which is about the size of 60 soccer fields, is in Cadarache, in southern France, close to the headquarters of the French atomic research agency. The components will be fabricated in various places and assembled on-site. India will contribute some of the million-odd parts of the Tokamak. France has just issued ITER the necessary licences to run a nuclear plant.
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