ITER has already begun contributing to the regional economy through direct and indirect employment. During construction, the ITER International Organization will directly employ some 700 people and generate about 3,000 jobs in France of which 1,400 in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
The ITER experimentation site is in Cadarache, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
An international project of scientific and technical cooperation the purpose of which is to demonstrate the feasibility of fusion as a potential energy source.
The European Union, the Russian Federation, Japan, China, South Korea, India and the United States are making an effort for ITER amounting to 10 billion Euro over 40 years with a common wish: to have an energy that does not produce greenhouse gas available by the 2nd half of the XXIst century.
An option that is possible in view of a future energy “mix.”
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