We know that Fusion energy can feed the energy hungry human population for years to come after all, it is the energy derived from the Sun and the stars. With this thought in mind the ITER project was set up as a  unique collaboration involving more than half of the global humanity.The ITER partners are the Peoples Republic of China, The European Union, India, Republic of Korea, Japan, Russian Federation and the United States of America.The mission-  Create unlimited supplies of cheap, clean, safe and sustainable electricity from atomic fusion and thereby feed the energy hungry human civilization for a very long time.

The project was initiated almost twenty five years ago when a group of industrial nations decided to develop a new cleaner way to get a sustainable source of unlimited energy. Fossil fuels were damaging the planet and its environment and there had to be a cheaper easier way to meet with the global energy demands which were set to triple by the end of the century. 

In 1985 at the Geneva summit, President Mitterand of France and Prime Minister Thatcher of the United Kingdom, General Secretary Gorbachev of the former Soviet Union proposed to U.S. President Reagan an international project aimed at developing fusion energy for peaceful purposes.

The building which houses the project is being constructed in an idyllic hilltop setting in the Cadarache forest of Provence in the south of France. With what is one of the largest global projects undertaken by governments of over 34 nations fusion energy will become the unlimited source of intrinsically safe- no carbon emission-no pollution energy. That's when the ITER projet was born. The People's Republic of China and the Republic of Korea joined the project in 2003 and India in 2005.

India's role in the ITER project is the development of the heaviest and the largest parts of the Tokamak reactor. The reactor which is doughnut shped will hold the plasma which will be needed for the Fusion reaction. A mixture of Deuterium and Tritium will power the reactor heating it up to exceedingly high temperatures. India will deliver the first ever components of the reactor by 2015. The Tokamak reactor is supposed to measure thrice the height of the Eiffel tower. The Iter tokamak machine will produce temperatures of well over 100 million C – many times hotter than the center of the Sun.

No single nation can face these challenges alone and so this collaboration will enhance and mitigate disastrous outcomes caused by efforts to meet energy needs. In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, Japan and other countries in Asia are opting for viable green energy to fulfill the need of their populations.