<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/84004605-36bb-4804-b215-6ae9c14e782a/B4472A40-A6C9-45E6-8058-AB1B06F41104/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ITER&oldid=167651297" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ITER&oldid=167651297" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ITER&oldid=167651297"><P><B>ITER</B> is an international <A title="Tokamak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak">tokamak</A> (<A title="Magnetic confinement fusion" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_confinement_fusion">magnetic confinement fusion</A>) research/engineering proposal which is intended to be an experimental project between today's studies of <A title="Plasma (physics)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_%28physics%29">plasma</A> physics and future electricity-producing <A title="Fusion power" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power">fusion power</A> plants. It will build upon research conducted with devices such as <A title="DIII-D" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIII-D">DIII-D</A>, <A title="EAST" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAST">EAST</A>, <A title="TFTR" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFTR">TFTR</A>, <A title="Joint European Torus" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_European_Torus">JET</A>, <A title="JT-60" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT-60">JT-60</A>, and <A title="T-15" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-15">T-15</A>, and will be considerably larger than any of them.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ITER&oldid=167651297"><P>On <A title="November 21" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_21">November 21</A>, <A title="2006" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006">2006</A>, the seven <A title="ITER" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#Participants">participants</A> formally agreed to fund the project.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-0"><A title="" href="#_note-0">[1]</A></SUP> The program is anticipated to last for 30 years—10 years for construction, and 20 years of operation—and cost approximately <A title="Euro" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro">€</A>10 billion (US$13.1 billion), which would make it one of the most expensive modern technoscientific <A title="Megaproject" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaproject">megaprojects</A>. It will be based in <A title="Cadarache" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadarache">Cadarache</A>, <A title="France" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France">France</A>. It is technically ready to start construction and the first plasma operation is expected in <A title="2016" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016">2016</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ITER&oldid=167651297"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/5F62642B-917A-41CE-91D3-E4E46718F678" alt="Wikimedia Foundation" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ITER&oldid=167651297"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/D97B91B2-8E68-4AEC-8812-8B4ACC9505AC" alt="The ITER design, as of 1993" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ITER&oldid=167651297"><DIV class="thumbcaption"> <DIV class="magnify"><A title="Enlarge" class="internal" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:ITER_reactor_cutout.png"><IMG width="15" height="11" alt="" src="http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/magnify-clip.png" /></A></DIV> The ITER design, as of 1993</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B4472A40-A6C9-45E6-8058-AB1B06F41104/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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