Editor's Summary
21 July 2005
Power play
With an $11-billion price tag, ITER (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) will be the most expensive ground-based scientific facility ever. The stakes are high but so is the potential reward: ITER is designed to produce the first nuclear fusion-generated electricity on Earth. But as with many other giant projects, it has its detractors.
News Feature: Fusion energy: Just around the corner
For 50 years, physicists have been promising that power from nuclear fusion is imminent. Now they are poised to build an experiment that could vindicate their views. But will the machine work? Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
doi: 10.1038/436318a
