Earthly sun called ITER

Full text: Participating in the film are Academicians Velikhov and Glukhikh, Mr. Filatof, ITER Director from Russia, Mr. Sannikov from Kurchatov Institute. The film tells about the starting point of the project (Mr. Lavrentyev), the pioneers of the project (Academicians Tamme, Sakharov, Artsimovich) and about the situation the project is standing now. Participating in [ITER now are the US, Russia, Japan and the European Union. There are two associated members as well - Kazakhstan and Canada. By now the engineering design phase has been finished. Computer animation used in the video gives us the idea how the first thermonuclear reactor based on famous Russian TOKOMAK works. (author)