Speaker
Jean-Marc ANE
(CEA)
Description
In 2006, in Paris, China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States committed to building ITER in Cadarache. ITER should demonstrate the feasibility of nuclear fusion, but significant amount of energy will only be produced in the next step reactors dubbed “DEMO”.
What are the physical and technical challenges to be faced to produce fusion energy? Will fusion reactors open the path to a proliferation resistant and safe energy? What would be the impact of the extraction of the almost inexhaustible fuel resources from the oceans? How much nuclear waste and greenhouse gas would be produced? Will fusion energy be available soon enough to contribute to the mitigation of climate change?
Primary author
Jean-Marc ANE
(CEA)
