France to Host China's ITER Nuclear Fusion Reactor.

China Peoples Daily ^ | Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, January 30, 2004 | Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue

[vannrox]

China will support France as the site of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)project, said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue Thursday.

After studying the two proposed sites in France and Japan for the construction of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, China had decided to support France, Zhang said.

France had been competing with Japan as the site of the multi-billion dollar project, but China hoped the issue could be settled according to consultations among all parties, she said.

The project is the world's largest-yet nuclear fusion power plant with technology touted as a solution to global energy problems. Once completed in 2050, the ITER will generate clean, safe and inexhaustible electricity.

The ITER participants -- the European Union, the United States,Russia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Canada and China -- are divided into two groups. If successful, the ITER is expected to be the world's first commercially viable fusion reactor and could herald a global energy revolution.

[vannrox]

ok.

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[shaggy eel]

,,, I bet China's a lot happier with France hosting this than Japan.

[CasearianDaoist]

China will be even happier buying arms from France. We should pull out of ITER now!

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Eh, this makes it seem as if it was China's call all along. What gives? They footin the whole bill?

[rmmcdaniell]

Once completed in 2050, the ITER will generate clean, safe and inexhaustible electricity.

In other words they don't yet have a freakin clue how thier going to get it work.

[Major_Risktaker]

[Rocky]

Well, let's see... If you put it in Japan, with all of their earthquakes, you could lose the whole investment overnight. If you put it in France, a future Moslem state, it will eventually become the property of Islam. Is there a third option?

[E.G.C.]

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