What is ITER?

As we recently saw what have happened in Japan it make us rethink about nuclear energy, and the consequences to produce energy from Fision reactors. could you be asking, there are no other way? the answer is yes there are, but it is still so far to become true.
There are an international agreement to build a large, $4 Billion, reactor-scale device known as the ¨International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor¨ ITER, based on nuclear fusion, and it is environmentally attractive, also sustainable energy source which is based on the same reaction that occur in our sun at very high temperatures.


The project ITER is in progress and there are other facilities such as JET(uk) or TFTR(us) where scientist are developing  the necessary techniques to work in appropriate safely environment, and testing materials adequate to support  high temperatures.
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Suntrek is a very interesting web on solar missions.

Suntrek's site is an updated page in which you will find a lot of plasma, latest research, ultimate mission, and more.

www.suntrek.org

Fusion, space and solar plasmas as complex systems.

Complex systems science offers two types of approach that are particularly helpful in plasma physics. First, there is now an array of statistical techniques that are specially adapted to capture and quantifying the nonlinear features of macroscopic system behaviour. Some applications to a variety of plasmas including astrophysical accretion disks, the solar corona, the solar wind and terrestial ionosphere, edge fluctuations in the MAST tokamak and ELM statistics in the JET tokamak. The second avenue offered by complex systems science comprises simple physically motivated conceptual models.

R. Dendy, S. Chapman and M Paczuski. Fusion, space and solar plasmas as complex systems. Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 49 (2007) A95–A108