Registration for the 16th ITER International School in Bengaluru, India, on "Tokamaks as Fusion Reactors" has been extended through 3 September 2026. CLICK HERE FOR ALL INFORMATION.
The ITER Organization has kicked off its 2022 internship program with the publication of 68 offers on the ITER website (visit Jobs/Internships here: https://www.iter.org/jobs/internships).
These opportunities are geared toward undergraduate and postgraduate students, with a broad array of topics across scientific, technical and support departments. Science, technology, systems engineering, business operations, and construction and installation are all represented in this year's batch of internship opportunities.
Positions are offered for up to six months; some categories are extendable to one year. Apply before 16 February 2022 (or 16 January 2022 for internships beginning in Q1 2022) through the online e-recruiting system. (Please note that internship opportunities are limited to nationals from countries participating in the ITER Project, i.e., China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russian Federation and the United States.)
To create fusion, you need a very different world to the one we live in. It needs to be six orders of magnitude hotter and six orders of…
Six orders of magnitude
To create fusion, you need a very different world to the one we live in. It needs to be six orders of magnitude hotter and six orders of magnitude less dense — and the result is six orders of magnitude more energy than most everyday processes. The EFDA web site has the whole story here...