Norbert Holtkamp
Principal Deputy Director-General, ITER Organization, St-Paul-lez-Durance, France
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Breaking the Wall of Fusion. How the ITER Project Aims for Limitless Energy.
Imagine if life on Earth wasn’t dependant on the sun… that the Earth had its own sun, serving as a giant local energy plant. The International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) is a research and engineering project that aims at making this a reality. Working to translate today’s studies of plasma physics into tomorrow’s electricity-producing fusion plants, ITER addresses one of the key challenges that our civilization will have to face over the next decades: how to provide sufficient, clean energy in the context of diminishing fossil resources and increasing demand for energy. “Iter” means “the way” in Latin. The ITER Project hopes to show “the way” to harnessing nuclear fusion as a power source for our future. Physicist Norbert Holtkamp (1961), an internationally-acclaimed expert in the field of highenergy colliders and linear accelerators, is the Principal Deputy Director-General of ITER, the first multinational, multibillion euro endeavour aiming to break into the future of energy.
