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2007-01-27 19:14:44 · 3 answers · asked by Manoj K 1 in Science & Mathematics Physics

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“The way” in Latin. Formerly interpreted to stand for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, although this usage has been discontinued.

It's a demonstration project showing the feasiblity of fusion power, using the deuterium-tritium reaction in a tokamak.

2007-01-27 19:22:46 · answer #1 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0 0

ITER is an international tokamak (magnetic confinement fusion) research project designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of a full-scale fusion power reactor. ITER is intended to be an experimental step between today's studies of plasma physics and future electricity-producing fusion power plants. It builds upon research conducted on devices such as DIII-D, EAST, TFTR, JET, JT-60, and T-15, and will be considerably larger than any of them.

On November 21, 2006, the seven participants formally agreed to fund the project.[1] The program is anticipated to last for 30 years—10 years for construction, and 20 years of operation—and cost approximately €10 billion (US$12.1 billion), making it the third most expensive scientific megaproject project after the Manhattan Project and the International Space Station. It will be based in Cadarache, France. It is technically ready to start construction and the first plasma operation is expected in 2016.

ITER is designed to produce approximately 500 MW (500,000,000 watts) of fusion power sustained for up to 500 seconds (compared to JET's peak of 16 MW for less than a second). A future fusion power plant would generate about 3000-4000 MW of thermal power. Although ITER will produce net power in the form of heat, the generated heat will not be used to generate any electricity.

According to the ITER consortium, fusion power offers the potential of "environmentally benign, widely applicable and essentially inexhaustible"[2][3] electricity, properties that they believe will be needed as world energy demands increase while simultaneously greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced,[4] justifying the expensive research project.

ITER was originally an acronym standing for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; that title was dropped to avoid the negative popular connotations of 'thermonuclear' and 'experimental'. 'Iter' also means 'the journey' or 'the path' in Latin, and this double meaning reflects ITER's role in harnessing nuclear fusion as a peaceful power source..

2007-01-27 23:17:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

doing it over? , repeating?

2007-01-27 19:21:43 · answer #3 · answered by jeeccentricx2 5 · 0 0

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