Russian physicists and engineers will provide standard equipment for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), France.
      
      The idea of tokamak (a machine producing a toroidal magnetic field for confining a plasma) first dawned on Russian physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov in the middle of the 20^th century. Then Soviet engineers built several tokamak units and sent some of them to other countries. Russia was the first country in the world to encourage other countries to build an experimental tokamak on the coast of Gulf of Finland near Leningrad nuclear power plant. However, lack of funds didn’t allow the project to become true.
      
      ITER thermonuclear reactor works on energy of nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes – deuterium and tritium, thus leaving no radioactive wastes. The reaction takes place in high-temperature plasma, resulting in 10 000 000 times more energy than burning of organic fuel, and 100 times more energy than uranium nuclear fission.
      
      Source: Science & Life