[TheWasteLand]

Very cool. Fusion is the holy grail of energy technologies.

[CalifChris]

This kind of stuff is above my head (grin!) but it sounds fantastic. Did I read correctly that this cost all of 8 billin? We blew that out of the end of a gun last week in Iraq (if only we would spend that much on guarding the border).

[Telepathic Intruder]

$8 billion for one of these, and the net output is 450 megawatts. That's about half a million homes (or one if it's Al Gore). So that's about $3,200 per home every year if they want to break even after 5 years, say (or a lot more for Al Gore, but he can afford it). Hopefully the cost will come down after the initial research; or with things going the way they are, they could be built in China and we could export our energy from them. Just kidding, hopefully.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks decimon. I’ll believe it when I see the first generating plant going up. :’) I think this Korean project is just a dream of producing a dangling carrot to entice the illegal Pyongyang regime to drop its fission programs.

[RightWhale]

S Korea can run their own experiments while supporting ITER and do both. The USA could develop their own fusion reactor while supporting ITER and do neither.

[Species8472]

Remember the days when the USA was at the forefront of this kind of technology?