ITER Organization
163 in this dataset
10 developers pursuing it
12 organisations in FR
What these terms mean
Every classification on this page, defined. These are controlled-vocabulary terms, so the same word means the same thing on every profile.
- Consortium
- A multi-party body pooling funding or facilities across organisations or states — ITER being the largest example.
- Operator
- Runs a facility, which may have been built by someone else.
- Fusion
- Organizations pursuing energy from nuclear fusion, and their dedicated supply chain.
- Tokamak › › Tokamak
- Doughnut-shaped magnetic confinement using a strong toroidal field plus a current driven through the plasma itself. The most-studied configuration, and the one ITER uses.
- Deuterium–tritium
- Lowest ignition threshold; 80% of energy in 14.1 MeV neutrons. The reference fuel for every near-term net-gain claim.
In ITER Organization’s own words
Quoted from the organisation’s own site as we archived it. Their description of themselves, not ours, and not a claim this site has checked.
Welcome to ITER, the largest energy research project on the planet. We offer guided tours for groups, individuals, schools and universities, and twice a year we open our doors to the public. Choose your visit option below!
Visitors must be 16 years of age and minors must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Kids younger than 16 are not permitted on the ITER worksite. We make an exception on Open Doors Days when we allow children aged ten and above to visit the ITER worksite.
No. We organize visits during the workweek, Monday to Friday, between 9:00 and 16:00.
Where ITER Organization sits
Composed from records in this dataset, not from outside research. Every figure below is counted from what the site holds, so it moves when the data does.
ITER Organization is one of 10 organisations in this dataset pursuing tokamak.
It is one of 12 we hold in FR.
It operates 1 device in this dataset, none of which carries recorded performance figures.
Related organisations
Others pursuing the same approach, then others in the same country.
Measured results
Results recorded on this operator’s devices. Design parameters — bore, field, dimensions — are excluded: a machine’s size is not something it achieved. 3 design parameters are held on the device pages.
| Device | Metric | Value | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ITER | Plasma gain (Q_plasma)per External heating power coupled into the plasma | 10 | planned | The machine |
| ITER | Plasma current | 15 MA | planned | World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022 |
| ITER | Plasma duration | 3000 s | planned | World Survey of Fusion Devices 2022 |
| ITER | Fusion triple product (nTτ_E) | 7.4 × 10²¹ m⁻³·keV·s | planned | Continuing progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria |
| ITER | Ion temperature | 20 keV | planned | Continuing progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria |
| ITER | Plasma density | 10²⁰ m⁻³ | planned | Continuing progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria |
| ITER | Energy confinement time (τ_E) | 3.7 s | planned | Continuing progress toward fusion energy breakeven and gain as measured against the Lawson criteria |
Devices operated 1
Pursuing the same technology
Others in this dataset working on Tokamak.
Sources
- ITER - the way to new energy operator
A source marked operator is the subject’s own publication. That is legitimate, and it is not independent confirmation. Methodology.