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Virtual Opening Ceremony for World's Largest Experimental Fusion Reactor Kicks Off in France - Video

© AP Photo / Claude ParisThe winding facility of the ITER ( the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), in the CEN of Cadarache, is pictured in Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, southern France, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017
The winding facility of the ITER ( the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), in the CEN of Cadarache, is pictured in Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, southern France, Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017 - Sputnik International
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The ITER demonstration reactor is being built next to the Cadarache research centre in southern France jointly by the European Union, Russia, China, India, Japan, South Korea, and the United States.

Sputnik is live from Saint Paul Lez Durance, France as French President Emmanuel Macron and government leaders from six other nations and the EU are holding an opening ceremony for the first-ever International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).

The launch of the reactor and the production of the first plasma there is expected to take place in 2025.

A total of 35 countries took part in the ITER project. The EU as host of the ITER reactor, contributed 45 percent of the cost of construction, with other countries, including Russia, each contributing 9 percent.

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