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INNOVATION

Termomeccanica Pompe is part of ITER,

the world’s largest experiment

on the path to clean fusion energy

Tokamak building at Caradache - France

ITER, a unique project that Fabrizio Cademartori, Structural Design the way for the clean fusion power plants
aims at building and testing the Department Manager of tomorrow. And Termomeccanica Pom-
Termomeccanica Pompe
pe is part of it all.
world’s largest magnetic fusion
device designed to prove the TER (International Thermonuclear Ex- The project in a nutshell
perimental Reactor) is a unique project
ITER, which means “the way” in Latin, is
feasibility of fusion as a large- that aims at building and testing the one of the most ambitious energy projects
world’s largest tokamak, a magnetic
in the world today.
scale and carbon-free source Ifeasibility of fusion as a large-scale In Cadarache, Southern France, 35 na-
fusion device designed to prove the
tions are collaborating to build the world’s
of energy, based on the same and carbon-free source of energy ba- largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device
principle that powers our Sun sed on the same principle that powers designed to prove the feasibility of fusion
as a large-scale and carbon-free source of
our Sun and stars. The experimental
and stars campaign to be carried out is crucial to energy based on the same principle that
powers our Sun and stars.
advancing fusion science and preparing

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