An experimental fusion reactor intended to lead the way to a safe and clean new energy source for the second half of this century has been formally launched by the governments of the world’s leading economies.
At a ceremony in Paris on Tuesday, ministers from the European Union, the US, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and Russia signed the agreement to give the go-ahead for the €10bn ($13bn), 10-year project, which will be built in the south of France.
Advocates of fusion power say that it is much safer and cleaner than the energy produced in today’s fission reactors and has very low carbon emissions.At peak output, for periods of about seven minutes at a time, the Iter reactor is intended to produce about 500MW of power; about 10 times what is being put in.
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