brw cover story: nuclear power, page-9

My apologies the plant will be experimental:

ITER is an international tokamak (magnetic confinement fusion) experiment, planned to be built in France and designed to show the scientific and technological feasibility of a full-scale fusion power reactor. It builds upon research conducted on devices such as TFTR, JET, JT-60, and T-15, and will be considerably larger than any of them. The program is anticipated to last for 30 years - 10 years for construction, and 20 years of operation - and cost approximately €10 billion. After many years of deliberation, the participants announced in June, 2005 that ITER will be built in Cadarache, France.

The name is an acronym; ITER stands for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor and 'iter' means 'the way' in Latin. The double meaning allows the name to be used as a reference to ITER being the way to harnessing nuclear fusion as a peaceful power source.

ITER is intended to be an experimental step between today's studies of plasma physics and future electricity-producing fusion power plants. It is technically ready to start construction and the first plasma operation is expected in 2015.