> There's no plan to hook ITER up to a thermal plant because it's a research reactor not a power plant Interestingly, that's not really true: IIRC the japanese

> There's no plan to hook ITER up to a thermal plant because it's a research reactor not a power plant Interestingly, that's not really true: IIRC the japanese team working on the WCCB breeder module (that uses supercritical water as coolant) plans on connecting the water loop to a small turbine. If they succeed it would be the first ever electrical power produced from fusion.