The ITER Project - The "CERN" of nuclear fusion is now under construction in France

by Deb Jordan, The Pete Santilli Show & The Guerilla Media Network

International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), is a massive fusion reactor being built by 35 countries in southern France.  Much like CERN, in that it is falling under the “order” of global rule and accomplishment, it is not just one country that will be taking the credit for any discoveries in nuclear fusion.

 The size and scope of ITER  is not the only similarity to CERN.

ITER is also constructing a nuetral beam test [NBFT] facility in Padova Itlay, and is Unique in being the only main ITER plant not based in Cadarache France.

The scope of the project is challenging: “providing a true reliable neutral beam injector for ITER, able to achieve full performance, giving confidence in terms of fatigue life predictions and identification of potential failures to avoid lost operation time in ITER” says Prof. Piergiorgio Sonato, from Consorzio RFX, while looking at the four Deputy Project Leaders to gain their agreement.

After contruction, the site will host two independent experiments, according to Proffessor Piergiorgio Sonato: SPIDER, the negative ion source prototype, and MITICA, the neutral beam injector system.  To achieve fusion, you have to bottle up that super-hot plasma so it’s really dense. Then you have to keep it dense, hot and contained long enough to get it to fuse.

Imagine a beam of neutral atoms accelerated at high speed and fired into the plasma; the atoms will collide with the plasma particles and transfer some of their energy, thus heating the plasma. To develop and test the source of these high-speed atoms and the injection system for ITER, two experiments are being constructed within the Neutral Beam Test Facility.

To be affordable, they will have to create more energy than the original energy used to heat the fuel and even though they readily admit they haven’t been able to figure that part out, leading researchers for the ITER project in Cadarache, France, in partnership with the NBFT facility in Padova, Italy, say the plan is to do just that.

According to this official ITER graphic, a plan to be producing plasma by 2020 will have ITER fully functional by 2027

This project will not be cheap for US Tax payers as design changes and construction delays have already resulted in rising costs. One estimate says the project will cost $21 billion by the time it’s expected to be finished around 2020 with a  U.S. contribution of $3.9 billion.

Authored by – Deb Jordan

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