The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) has launched a project for private sector engagement as it bids to engage with private initiatives and capitalise on increased interest in fusion and its potential as a source of almost limitless energy.

Iter – the world’s most ambitious effort to replicate the power of the Sun on Earth – announced it had set up help desk to serve as a central coordination point for requests to access Iter documents, connections to Iter experts and technical questions.

“The driver has been a series of questions, asked and answered repeatedly: ‘How can Iter help?’, Iter said. “How can we effectively match the pace of private-sector demand, within resource constraints? And what are the structures, platforms and channels best suited to delivering?”