Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Ever since the beacon of innovations during the industrial revolution, we have aimed to achieve greater mega projects that factor in our growing population and its energy usage. Around 30 years ago, a group of industrial nations decided to take on a project and develop a new, cleaner, and more sustainable source of energy. This is how ITER or the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world’s largest nuclear fusion project came into existence. So, let's take a look at what it is and why it is the most significant mega project in the history of our entire civilization.
In southern France, about 35 nations have collaborated in building the world’s largest tokamak device. This machine is a magnetic fusion device that is designed to prove the feasibility of fusion on a large scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the principle that powers our Stars and Sun. So, what this means is that we will be able to create the same amount of energy as it is being emitted from our Sun. But how will that be even possible? To answer this, we must first look at the process of fusion and how the tokamak reactor will yield and sustain such energy output.
Ever since the beacon of innovations during the industrial revolution, we have aimed to achieve greater mega projects that factor in our growing population and its energy usage. Around 30 years ago, a group of industrial nations decided to take on a project and develop a new, cleaner, and more sustainable source of energy. This is how ITER or the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world’s largest nuclear fusion project came into existence. So, let's take a look at what it is and why it is the most significant mega project in the history of our entire civilization.
In southern France, about 35 nations have collaborated in building the world’s largest tokamak device. This machine is a magnetic fusion device that is designed to prove the feasibility of fusion on a large scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the principle that powers our Stars and Sun. So, what this means is that we will be able to create the same amount of energy as it is being emitted from our Sun. But how will that be even possible? To answer this, we must first look at the process of fusion and how the tokamak reactor will yield and sustain such energy output.
