Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inspect the world’s most advanced fusion energy nuclear reactor at the cadre in southern France on Wednesday, where the world’s best scientists have gathered to create a “small sun” on Earth.
The Prime Minister is on a three -day visit to France since Monday.
ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) or “The Way”, the project wants to provide unlimited supply of more than 22 billion clean energy and cost to the world. It is an unprecedented cooperation of seven countries – America, Russia, South Korea, Japan, China, India and the European Union (EU), all of which aim to make “Aditya on Earth”.
The project has written “Made in India”, and wants to exploit “Mitra on Dharti”. 17,500 crore – about 10% of the cost, India will get 100% access to technology. It is the most expensive mega-sense effort that is participating in India and globally, ITER is the most expensive science project to be launched in the 21st century on Earth.
India has also contributed the largest component to the project – the world’s largest refrigerator, which gives home to this unique reactor, was built in Gujarat by Larsen and Toubro. It weighs more than 3,800 tonnes and is about half the height of the Qutub Minar. The total weight of the iter reactor will be around 28,000 tonnes.
In addition, India has also contributed the “in-in-round” materials manufactured by the Indian industry.
The Sun is a natural fusion energy and life on earth would be impossible if solar energy has come to a stop. There is a joke among scientists who say when fusion energy will be exploited, and the timeline has always been after two decades since the 1980s.
Mega endeavor fusion is to display steps to harvest energy, namely, to generate energy by fusing atoms. Traditional nuclear power works by dividing atoms and it generates long -lasting radioactive waste. But by fusing hydrogen and its sisters, waste product is a benign helium gas. The Sun generates its energy by fusing atoms and today, when the climate crisis is affecting us, the discovery of a clean, carbon-free source of energy has become more important than ever. But it is easy to make the sun that has been done.
Since a large -scale reactor is being built in Cadarachae in Europe, 45% of the European Union Construction Costs, and the rest of the member nations are sharing 9.1% of each cost.
There are more than one million different parts that will be obtained from more than 45 countries and now it is estimated that by 2035, the ITER machine will be ready for its first full experimental run.
There is a concern with India’s involvement in ITER – disappointing allocation of human resources by India on the site. According to an agreement, each participating country can provide up to 10% of employees. Thus, India can send around 100 of its engineers and scientists to work as employees in ITER.
Records have shown that currently only 25 to 30 are working on Indian site. The strength of a complete staff is important so that young Indian engineers can learn the complications of this million piece saw puzzle which are being kept together. While there will be no doubt in India that there is complete access to pictures and blueprints, Indians working on the site say that the best learning comes with dirty hands.
By not fulfilling the strength of the employees, India has given countries like China an opportunity to do additional staffing. There are many reasons behind understanding, most of them are related to myopic policies of Personnel and Training Department (DOPT). There is a common circular that suggests that government employees cannot be done for more than two years and for experts from autonomous institutions, for conditions of not exceeding five years. For a project that has more than two decades of pregnancies, such small tenures are counter-producers.
India’s bureaucracy needs to create an exception and if India really wants to learn the art and science of making iter machines, then a size-fit-all-regulation needs to go.
