CHENNAI: India’s contribution to the $25 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be unveiled to the world on Tuesday, when the India-built cryostat base – one of the largest stainless steel vacuum chambers ever built – and lower cylinder is fabricated in southern France, according to an ITER spokesperson.
With this fabrication, the project, proving that nuclear fusion can produce power sustainably on commercial scale, will be 65 per cent complete. Sun’s energy, which comes to earth in the form of light and heat, is produced by fusion. This project is aimed at using the same technique to produce safe, abundant and environmentally responsible energy, unlike energy generated through nuclear fission.
