ITER Nuclear Fusion

ITER Nuclear Fusion Project

This video about the ITER nuclear fusion project in Europe shows the best animation yet of a tokamak in action. To produce fusion reactions, the fuel must be heated to a temperature of over one hundred and fifty million degrees — more than ten times the temperature of the sun’s core. An initial plasma is formed and heated by driving an electric current through the fuel gas in the tokamak chamber. As the temperature of the plasma rises, reactions between the plasma deuterium and tritium begin.