Centre for Air Power Studies

In return for been approved by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy its investment, India will get Authority (UKAEA), a research organization of the access to 100 per cent of the government of the UK, which is responsible for the intellectual property rights, development of fusion energy. [...] UKAEA has also hosted which opens the pathways the JET at the Culham facility since the inception of its for the construction of design in 1973. [...] It will be the “world’s largest fusion reactor, the first fusion device to maintain fusion for long periods and the first to test integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity.”⁴ The ITER tokamak will be a unique experimental tool aiming to contain ten times the plasma volume of the largest machine operating today. [...] Furthermore, the machine has been designed to produce 500 MW of fusion power from 50 MW of input heating power, demonstrate the integrated operation of technologies for a fusion power plant, achieve a deuterium-tritium plasma with internal heating, and demonstrate the safety characteristics of the fusion device.5 India and ITER India is one of the seven partner nations that are cooperatively worki. [...] As the reactor is being constructed in Europe, the EU will be taking care of 45 per cent of the entire cost and the rest of the members will bear 9.1 per cent each.⁸ This accounts for a contribution of 2.2 billion dollars on India’s part.⁹ In return for its investment, India will get access to 100 per cent of the intellectual property rights which opens the pathways for the construction of fusion.