It's hard to believe that after all of this time, ITER is still almost a decade away from first plasma.
There's the common joke that fusion is always 30 years away, but now with the help of ITER, it's always 10 years away instead.
There's the common joke that fusion is always 30 years away, but now with the help of ITER, it's always 10 years away instead.
This is why much of the fusion research community feel disillusioned with ITER, and so are more interested in these smaller (and supposedly more "agile") machines with high-temperature superconductors instead.