{"id":123863,"date":"2021-06-15T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/iter-global-fusion-energy-project-after-a-decade-of-design-and-fabrication-worlds-most-powerful-magnet-ready"},"modified":"2021-06-15T21:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:23:34","slug":"iter-global-fusion-energy-project-after-a-decade-of-design-and-fabrication-worlds-most-powerful-magnet-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/iter-global-fusion-energy-project-after-a-decade-of-design-and-fabrication-worlds-most-powerful-magnet-ready","title":{"rendered":"ITER Global Fusion Energy Project: After a Decade of Design and Fabrication, Worlds Most Powerful Magnet Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7PZv8gCiv5M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a decade of design and fabrication, General Atomics is ready to ship the first module of the Central Solenoid, the world\u2019s most powerful magnet. It will become a central component of ITER, a machine that replicates the fusion power of the Sun. ITER is being built in southern France by 35 partner countries.<\/p>\n<p>ITER\u2019s mission is to prove energy from hydrogen fusion can be created and controlled on earth. Fusion energy is carbon-free, safe, and economic. The materials to power society with hydrogen fusion for millions of years are readily abundant.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the challenges of Covid-19, ITER is almost 75 percent built. For the past 15 months, massive first-of-a-kind components have begun to arrive in France from three continents. When assembled together, they will make up the ITER Tokamak, a \u201csun on earth\u201d to demonstrate fusion at industrial scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a decade of design and fabrication, General Atomics is ready to ship the first module of the Central Solenoid, the world\u2019s most powerful magnet. It will become a central component of ITER, a machine that replicates the fusion power of the Sun. ITER is being built in southern France by 35 partner countries. ITER\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}