Book 1 - Hola MaHigh-School - June 2022

So, what has changed? The bigger
change is that in a small lab experiment
in Culham (see pic) it has been
possible to keep a plasma-blob together
for five seconds. Wow. Why is
it significant? Because it shows that it
can be sustained over a longer period
of time. Five seconds in physics is
just as good as 5 years.
In comes the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, better
known as ITER.
ITER is a cooperation among thirty-five countries,
which is run by seven main members — China, the
United States, the European Union, Russia, India, Japan
and South Korea and some 4,500 companies with
15,000 employees from all over the globe.
But will it produce electricity? Is this it?
This is a technology demonstrator.
It will prove that commercial
and sustainable fusion technology
can be used in generating
electricity. We may ask ourselves
what the price could be for such a
demonstrator.
It is a staggering $25 billion! Just
to prove a point (and prove that
the technology employed will do
the trick). The total cost might
even go to $65 billion
So it must be massive?