Inside a $20 Billion Effort to Create a Star on Earth

Next is Rudaw Media Network’s newest TV program, tackling recent technological advancements and scientific achievements from around the globe and examining their impact on the world and everyday life.

Host Namo Abdulla interviews leading experts and the bright minds behind some of the world’s most astonishing innovations in the fields of artificial intelligence, biotech, medicine, renewable energy, and outer space.

Below is the subject of the fifth episode of the show:

This video covers the most ambitious undertaking in the history of clean energy production – a project so monumental it could change the course of humanity forever. With a price tag of $20 billion, ITER, involving scientists from 35 nations, aims to create a star on earth. A machine ten times hotter than the sun's core. This audacious France-based endeavor seeks to produce virtually endless clean energy by mimicking the very process that fuels our sun and stars.