To date, it is one of the most ambitious nuclear power projects in the world. The experimental campaign being conducted at ITER is key to the advancement of nuclear fusion technology and paves the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow.

ITER will be the first fusion reactor to produce “net energy,” which is more energy than is needed to sustain the nuclear fusion reaction between two isotopes of the hydrogen atom – Deuterium and Tritium. In other words, it will be possible to sustain nuclear fusion over long periods of time (as happens in stars) and to test the integrated technologies, materials and physical systems needed for the commercial generation of electricity based on nuclear fusion.