* 1999-The United States withdraw from the ITER project.

* 2003-The United States rejoins the ITER project with China and Republic of Korea also joining.

Its major project is currently its participation in the international fusion reactor ITER financed under the nuclear part of FP7.

Clarington was a candidate in the race to host ITER in 2001, but the Canadian bid to host the project was withdrawn two years later.

ITER ( originally an acronym of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest and most advanced experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor at the Cadarache facility in the south of France.

The ITER project aims to make the long-awaited transition from experimental studies of plasma physics to full-scale electricity-producing fusion power plants.

The first commercial demonstration fusion power plant, named DEMO, is proposed to follow on from the ITER project to bring fusion energy to the commercial market.

These parties ( with the Russian Federation replacing the Soviet Union and with the USA opting out of the project in 1999 and returning in 2003 ) were joined in negotiations on the future construction, operation and decommissioning of ITER by Canada ( who then terminated their participation at the end of 2003 ), the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Korea.

The ITER project was initiated in 1988.

the ITER project was formally agreed to and funded in 2006 with a cost estimate of $ 12. 8 billion ( 10 billion Euro ) projecting the start of construction in 2008 and completion a decade later.

Other members said that the Monju project should be stopped completely, and that all efforts should be put into the international fusion-reactor project ITER instead.

* Six party talks in Vienna came to a deadlock over where to place the ITER international fusion project.

He assigned high priority to reducing overall energy demand, especially by improving the energy efficiency of buildings, promoting the long-term development of hydrogen as a fuel source, improving the competitiveness of renewable energy sources through economic measures, and supporting the development of nuclear fusion and the ITER project.

The present state of the art in fusion research is for example, the $ 12 billion ITER multinational project, which uses a tokamak-like configuration to reach and maintain the high temperatures and plasma densities needed for fusion ( Lawson criterion, 1957 ).

In 2003 Sierra Club Canada lobbied extensively to stop Canadian participation in the ITER project.

However, by contrast, most of the prior mentioned countries remain fully in favor, and financially support Nuclear Fusion energy and research, including EU wide funding of the ITER project.

However, by contrast, most of the prior mentioned countries remain fully in favor, and financially support Nuclear Fusion energy and research, including EU wide funding of the ITER project.

The DEMO project is planned to build upon and improve the concepts of ITER.

A frontier in current research at various institutions, for example the Joint European Torus ( JET ) and ITER, is the development of an economically viable method of using energy from a controlled fusion reaction.

Two projects, the National Ignition Facility and ITER are in the process of reaching breakeven, that is, producing as much energy as was required to ignite the reaction, after 60 years of design improvements developed from previous experiments.

This device where a large toroidal current is established ( 15 Mega-amps in ITER ) suffers from a fundamental problem of stability.

In the ITER tokamak, it is expected that the occurrence of a limited number of major disruptions will definitively damage the chamber with no possibility to restore the device .< ref > Wurden, G., ( 2011 ) International Workshop " MFE Roadmapping in the ITER Era ", Princeton < http :// advprojects. pppl. gov / Roadmapping / presentations / MFE_POSTERS / WURDEN_Disruption_RiskPOSTER. pdf ></ ref >< ref > Baylor, L. R .; Combs, S. K .; Foust, C. R .; Jernigan, T. C.

* The first plasma operation of the nuclear fusion reactor ITER is expected.

ITER is designed to produce ten times more fusion power than the power put into the plasma.

ITER is currently under construction in Cadarache, France.

* 2003-Cadarache in France is selected as the European Candidate Site for ITER.

Its main purpose is to open the way to future nuclear fusion experimental tokamak reactors such as ITER and: DEMO.

A “ Remote Handling ” system is, in general, an essential tool for any subsequent fusion power plant and especially for the future experimental reactor, ITER.

The EU, as host party for the ITER complex, is contributing 45 % of the cost, with the other six parties contributing 9 % each.

ITER is designed to produce approximately 500 MW of fusion power sustained for up to 1, 000 seconds ( compared to JET's peak of 16 MW for less than a second ) by the fusion of about 0. 5 g of deuterium / tritium mixture in its approximately 840 m < sup > 3 </ sup > reactor chamber.

Although ITER is expected to produce ( in the form of heat ) 10 times more energy than the amount consumed to heat up the plasma to fusion temperatures, the generated heat will not be used to generate any electricity.

The experimental ITER ( International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ) power station will be built at Cadarache in the South of France and is the result of an international collaboration involving the European Union ( represented by EURATOM ), Japan, the People's Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, the Russia and the United States.

At Cadarache an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, ITER, is under construction.

A 500-MW heat generating fusion plant using tokamak magnetic confinement geometry is currently being built in France ( see ITER ).

Construction of the ITER complex began in 2007, and is projected for completion in 2018.

One of the most notable nuclear installations at Cadarache is the ITER experimental nuclear fusion tokamak, which is expected to be completed by 2018.

The process of manufacturing tritium currently produces long-lived waste, but both ITER and DEMO will produce their own tritium, dispensing with the fission reactor currently used for this purpose.

Promising future industrial and commercial HTS applications include Induction heaters, transformers, fault current limiters, power storage, motors and generators, fusion reactors ( see ITER ) and magnetic levitation devices.

* ITER, an international scientific experiment ( the 2nd largest in world history ) in developing nuclear fusion as an energy source will begin its first plasma experiments.

A small number of large scale nuclear fusion systems also exist including the National Ignition Facility in the USA, JET in the UK, and soon the recently started ITER experiment in France.

The sturdiness and flexibility of JET ’ s original design has made it possible for the device to evolve with the interests of the fusion community and meet the requirements of ITER.

Pending construction of ITER, JET remains the only large fusion reactor with facilities dedicated to handling the radioactivity released from D-T fusion.

Work has now begun on ITER to further develop fusion power.

The ITER fusion reactor itself has been designed to produce 500 megawatts of output power for 50 megawatts of input power, or ten times the amount of energy put in.

The central solenoid and toroidal field superconducting magnets designed for the ITER fusion reactor use niobium-tin ( Nb < sub > 3 </ sub > Sn ) as a superconductor.

Rokkasho was a candidate to host the plasma fusion reactor ITER, but lost out to Cadarache, France.