Discovering the ITER 2026 project

Procedure and conditions of the visit:
An hour presentation at the visitor centre, followed by a tour of the platform by bus (subject to accessibility conditions at the time of the visit).
Reservations must be made at least 10 days in advance at the Gréoux-les-Bains Tourist Office. Please note: For this visit, you must travel to the ITER center independently, 15 minutes before the start of the tour.
Trousers are mandatory (no skirts or shorts), and flat, closed shoes are required.
Presentation of an official identity document (national identity card or passport) is required for admission to the site.
Unfortunately, ITER is not accessible to people with reduced mobility.

What is ITER?
In France, in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, 35 countries are involved in the construction of the largest tokamak ever designed, a machine that is intended to demonstrate that fusion — the energy of the Sun and stars — can be used as a large-scale, non-CO2 emitting energy source to produce electricity.
The results of ITER's scientific program will be decisive in paving the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow.
ITER will be the first fusion facility capable of producing a net amount of energy. The machine will perform long-duration plasma discharges and will also test, for the first time, the technologies, materials, and plasma regimes required to produce electricity on a commercial scale.
Thousands of engineers and scientists have contributed to the design of ITER since the idea of ​​international collaboration on fusion energy was launched in 1985. The ITER Members (China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States) have committed to a thirty-five-year collaboration to build and operate the ITER experimental facility. A demonstration reactor can be designed based on this experience.
Fusion is the energy source that powers the Sun and stars. Under the extreme pressure and temperature conditions found at the core of these stellar bodies, hydrogen nuclei collide and fuse to form helium atoms, releasing considerable amounts of energy in the process.

Minimum age: 16 years