Michel Claessens 
ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor [PDF ebook] 
Bringing a Sun to Earth

Introduction.- The Future of energy.- What is Nuclear Fusion?- The ITER Tokamak.- Why France?- A Gigantic Worksite.- Sceptical Scientists.- How Much Does ITER Cost?- After ITER.- Clean Energy?- How Safe is ITER?.- A Political Project.- ITER Warms up the Economy of Provence.- A Scientific Tower of Babel- Chinese in Manosque.- A Worksite Open to the Public.- The Holy Grail of Fusion.- Technology Diplomacy.    

Michel Claessens is a scientist and essayist. He was head of communication and external relations of the ITER project from 2011 to 2016. His background is physical chemistry (Ph D) and science journalism. He joined the European Commission in 1994 where has been acting Head of the Communication Unit in the Research Directorate-General, spokesperson for research, editor-in-chief of the ‘research*eu’ magazine and in charge of the science and technology Eurobarometers until 2010. He is now in charge of ITER policy and communication in European Commission’s Directorate-General for Energy.   

Michel is also teaching at the Free University of Brussels and has published a dozen of books and essays, including:

At the Human scale – International practices in science communication (avec Donghong Cheng,  Jenni Metcalfe, Bernard Schiele, Toss Gascoigne et Shi Shunke), Science Press, 2006
Communicating European Research 2005 (M.Claessens editor), Springer, 2007
Communicating Science in Social Contexts (edited by D. Cheng, M. Claessens, T. Gascoigne, J. Metcalfe, B. Schiele, S. Shunke), Springer, 2008
Science communication in the world (Bernard Schiele, Michel Claessens and Shi Shunke editors),  Springer, 2012

The author’s TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs Eoe Eetmvk