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Fuel for world’s largest fusion reactor ITER is set for test run

Nuclear fusion experiments with deuterium and tritium at the Joint European Torus are a crucial dress rehearsal for the mega-experiment.
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A pioneering reactor in Britain is gearing up to start pivotal tests of a fuel mix that will eventually power ITER — the world’s biggest nuclear-fusion experiment. Nuclear fusion is the phenomenon that powers the Sun and, if physicists can harness it on Earth, it would be a source of almost limitless energy.

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Nature 591, 15-16 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00408-1

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