Since Russia invaded Ukraine, Europe and the United States have cut ties with Moscow to isolate the country and its economy on the international stage. However, despite all the obstacles, there is still one collaboration as if nothing happened: for research on nuclear fusion.
Why is this important?
Attempts have been made for some time to crack the nuclear fusion code, the same process that takes place in the Sun. It will provide unlimited clean energy.Background: ITER, World’s largest nuclear fusion projectA geopolitical conundrum.
- The creation of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) alone was already a monumental geopolitical symbolic moment.
- The project was launched in 1985 after a meeting between Ronald Reagan and the recently deceased President of the United States and General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev.
- A compliance exercise
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