ITER is extremely expensive. Been in development for decades, and yet it won’t really achieve anything other than “learning lessons.” Which means there will be decades of development after ITER to do another lessons learned shit. The toroidal reactor is a dead-end project. There are other interesting methods of achieving fusion that are cheaper:
https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/Also that money would be better served in creating optimized fission reactors.
