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Fusion Reactor Project Largest After ISS

Posted by timothy on from the put-it-in-france dept.

Maktoo writes "All proper geeks know Fusion is the Way of the Future. Dec 16th is the date set for selection of the site of the new International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter). A collaboration between the EU, Japan, the U.S., Canada, China, South Korea and Russia, 'ITER would be the world's largest international cooperative research and development project after the International Space Station.' Their goal over the next decade? '[T]o produce 500 megawatts of fusion power for 500 seconds or longer during each individual fusion experiment and in doing so demonstrate essential technologies for a commercial reactor.'"

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  1. eep by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Fusion Reactor Project Largest After IIS"

    I'd say the odds are pretty good that somebody's going to make a Microsoft joke here.

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    "Derp de derp."
  2. IIS? by dmayle · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fusion Reactor Project Largest After IIS

    Don't you mean the largest thermonuclear disaster, second only to IIS? Oh... you meant ISS...

  3. Great Scott! by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Funny

    "[T]o produce 500 megawatts of fusion power for 500 seconds or longer during each individual fusion experiment and in doing so demonstrate essential technologies for a commercial reactor"

    500 megawatts? Wow, that's almost in the gigawatt range. If anybody's curious, I found a mockup of what the commercial product will look like.

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    "Derp de derp."
  4. Website by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    I'd go and learn all about this project if their website wasn't on drugs.

    Neon-gradient backgrounds? What is this, 1995?