ITER

ITER

By: Emma Mellon, Jordan Kania, and Sylvie Holding

In about a decade the most complex machine ever built, will be completed. It is called ITER (International Thermonuclear Reactor). The process in which it produces energy is when, two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium are being pushed together creating helium-5. Helium-5 has an extra neutron which is released generating energy. All this is taking place in the “magnetic bottle" which is a bunch of magnets in a heated cloud. The process of creating ITER has taken thirty five countries, billions of dollars, and eight plus years of intense effort. However, ITER could solve the worlds energy problems. With ITER in place there would be little to no pollution.  While fossil fuels are decreasing, ITER uses seawater and lithium, thus never running out.

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090527/full/459488a.html