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Published on Sun May 24 2026

Take a look inside ITER, the world's largest fusion reactor, to see how scientists from around the world are working tirelessly to re-create the sun's superpower on Earth and fuel a clean energy revolution.

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0:00 Welcome to ITER
1:21 Meet Plasma
1:38 ITER's Magnets
2:28 ITER's Goals
3:31 Hotter than the sun
3:57 Setbacks
4:46 International collaboration
5:18 ITER's Tokamak Hall
5:38 The heart of ITER
6:08 ITER's fuel
6:38 The walls of the tokamak
7:00 Tritium breeding
7:20 "The knowledge of the world"

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