What is ITER?
Iter is a bibliography that includes literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance covering the period from 400 to1700. Materials indexed include citations for books, journal articles, reviews, and essays. As of May 21, 2004, 47,661 titles have been indexed. A complete list of journal titles is available for review. A complete list of scholarly collections titles is available for review.
ITER used to be short for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, an international project to push the limits of fusion energy. The long name was ultimately dropped due to the negative public connotations of the word “thermonuclear,” so the project is now known as just “ITER,” which also means “journey” or “way” in Latin. The project is a consortium of seven national and supranational parties: the European Union (EU), India, Japan, People’s Republic of China, Russia, South Korea, and the US. Brazil will also participate, using Portugal’s role in the European Union as a proxy. The object of ITER is to produce a sustained fusion reaction, one that generates 500 megawatts for up to 1000 seconds. In comparison, the last major international fusion project, the Joint European Torus, produced about 16 megawatts of power for less than a second. As of 2009, ITER is currently under construction for a cost of about $9.3 US billion, and is expected to be completed by 2018 and operate for
