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Europe puts France up for reactor (world's 1st fusion reactor will cost $5bil, revolutionize energy)
BBC News ^
| Wednesday, 26 November, 2003
| Dr David Whitehouse
Posted on 11/26/2003 7:15:03 AM PST by presidio9
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The International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor (Iter) is an international collaboration between the EU, USA, Canada, Russia, China and South Korea. The aim is to design and build a fusion reactor in about a decade at a cost of $5bn. Iter will bridge the gap between current fusion reactors and a commercial plant.
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Iter will be based on Jet - the Joint European Torus. In Jet the plasma is shaped like a doenut and confined by a magnetic field.
Coming into operation in 1983, Jet achieved a world record for fusion achieving 12.9 MW output in a 1997 experiment.
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The European candidate for the Iter site is situated inland from Marseille on the Mediterranean coast.
Operated by France's Atomic Energy Commission, Cadarache is already the site of extensive fusion research including the Tore Supra tokomak experiment.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:15:04 AM PST
by
presidio9
To: presidio9
Somebody better let Martin Sheen know about this so that he can get his protest signs printed in advance...
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:17:12 AM PST
by
Born Conservative
("Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names" - John F. Kennedy)
To: presidio9
This could be as revolutionary as Japan's 10 billion dollar fifth generation computer language that revolutionized data processing a decade ago.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:17:13 AM PST
by
js1138
To: presidio9
Forget Japan..as long as Kim is in control of DNK, with its missiles..the plant is a target...
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:21:11 AM PST
by
ken5050
To: js1138
Explain this to me...somebody is on the edge of fusion power, and the D@mn Luddite moron Democrats won't let us drill in Anwar, a God-fosaken treeless frozen wasteland, in the name of making us independent from murderous, Jihad-happy terrorist towelheads.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:21:25 AM PST
by
50sDad
("Earth First! Then we make MARS our B!tch!")
To: Born Conservative
Somebody better let Martin Sheen know about this so that he can get his protest signs printed in advance... Exactly.
Is this experimental, or has this technology already been demonstrated to work?
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:21:57 AM PST
by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: presidio9
"Spain had initially put forward its own choice of Vandellos but then fell in line with its EU partners ...."
Fell inline with it's EU MASTERS is more like it ...
With the big bosses skimming off the cream of the "Union" how long will it be until some country needs to figure just how to unscramble the EUROmess ?
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:26:10 AM PST
by
RS
(nc)
To: presidio9
The European Union has chosen France as its preferred location for a nuclear reactor...France is preferred because, if the reactor goes Chernobyl, nothing important will be destroyed. 8^)
It seriously ticks me off that the Greens have managed to kill reactor construction here, yet France can build as many as needed.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:26:44 AM PST
by
AngryJawa
("The bang is great, but the shockwave is where it’s at.")
To: Aquinasfan
The
process is well known; the technology to implement the process does not exist. They're playing on the come.
Wonder what the froggie word for ''boondoggle'' is...
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:27:07 AM PST
by
SAJ
To: presidio9
I hope they build better reactors than cars. Remember "LeCar"?
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:30:21 AM PST
by
Semper Vigilantis
(The best defense is a pre-emptive strike.)
To: presidio9
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:34:15 AM PST
by
finnman69
(cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
To: SAJ
Nobody has yet figured out a way to make a sustainable fusion reaction.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:36:06 AM PST
by
XJarhead
To: AngryJawa
It seriously ticks me off that the Greens have managed to kill reactor construction here, yet France can build as many as needed. Plus, they sank Greenpeace's boat. Perhaps the French have found an adversary they can defeat.
To: SAJ
Wonder what the froggie word for ''boondoggle'' is...Kerry
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:40:21 AM PST
by
Jambe
To: Aquinasfan
There's an experimental
fusion reactor in the heart of Cambridge, MA and the greenies there are oblivious.
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:42:39 AM PST
by
Cooter
To: presidio9
shouldn't they be required to display an ability to send their lone aircraft carrier on a sustained deployment first? talk about letting the kids run with scissors.
To: XJarhead
Exactly right. Hence, as noted, the technology to implement the process doesn't exist. I believe we're saying the same thing, are we not?
It's a looooooong step from fusing a few atoms under artificial lab conditions to producing commercially feasible amounts of energy on a controlled and controllable basis. But, cheer up, it's only Wonderland taxpayers' money. :^)
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posted on
11/26/2003 7:52:01 AM PST
by
SAJ
To: SAJ
You know that we arew footing tem percent of the bill for this, maybe even more?
To: CasearianDaoist
Sure. Not happy about it, either.
BTW, what aren't we footing 10% of the bill for? :^)
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posted on
11/26/2003 8:13:35 AM PST
by
SAJ
To: SAJ
Quite simply put, there is no technology more important to the future of the planet than fusion. It is an inexhaustable power source and will be critical to the planet's advancement to a
Type 1 civilization.
It doesn't matter how much it costs, the benefits will far outweight the costs.
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