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Vacuum and cryogenics

Vacuum and cryogenics

Magnet challenges for ITER

29 Sep 2011

To control a plasma at a temperature of 150 million Kelvin, the ITER fusion reactor will need a magnet system like no other, as Daniel Clery explains

The ITER construction site
Generating power with nuclear fusion – slamming together hydrogen isotopes until they fuse into he

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