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The road to fusion

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The construction of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment, is now 60% complete. The challenges ahead are huge and the way to go is still long, but an extensive research effort is supporting the technological developments needed to make ITER a reality.

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Fig. 1: Building ITER.

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Pacchioni, G. The road to fusion. Nat Rev Phys 1, 360–362 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0069-8

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