The  most complex machine ever designed

If successful, specialists in southern France may be likely to offer a more environmentally friendly substitute for nuclear fission and fossil fuels.

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The  largest ever built, with a plasma volume of 830 cubic metres

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Temperature will reach 150 million°C—or ten times the temperature at the core of our Sun

Transported along 104 kilometres  of specially modified road  known as  the ITER Itinerary

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100,000 kilometres of niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) superconducting strands 

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2X  THE THRUST  OF A  SPACE SHUTTLE LIFT-OFF

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