France to Be Site of World's First Nuclear Fusion

brad writes "The New York Times (free registration) is reporting that 'France won an international competition today to be the site of the world's first nuclear fusion reactor, an estimated $12 billion project that many scientists see as essential to solving the world's future energy needs.'"

Comments

Re:Dup Fusion

[Madmonky1]

fusing dupes would be nice too. Try paying attention to your own spelling.

Duposity!

[ChimpyMonkey]

Hell I'm a subscriber and clicked the "report problems here" and emailed the so called "on duty editor".

The "new" article then remained red in the mysterious future for a further 15 minutes before being added to the main non-subscriber page.

So oh mighty editors, if you aren't going to pay attention to emails sent to you, why have the link there in hte first place?

WMD Found!

[__aaclcg7560]

I wonder where Saddam's WMDs disappeared to. Obviously, this is a conspiracy by the French to make the Bush Administration look bad when no WMDs was found in Iraq. We should send our nuclear waste over there for good measure. ;)

Calamité Génétique Fantastique!

[LrdZombie]

I for one am in favor of fusing the French. The only question is what to fuse them with? Maybe an octopus. I don't know what you'd get, but it'd sure throw up a lot of arms when it surrendered!

Again Again

[_ph1ux_]

I Surrender Already. I Surrender!

Re:Correction

[aftk2]

Ahem, third largest.

NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard

[tod_miller]

By back yard I mean generally in the same hemisphere.

Lest we forget:

Chernobyl

and

Annotated

Thanks to googlesightseeing for the links.

XBZMSTZ - there I am not a fucking script. Tee guy who decided they needed a script for every login as an asshole. Have it for signups, have it for AC posts. NOT FOR EVERY FUCKING LOGIN. Asshole. Even worse, he is just stupid. Illogical. Bad designer.

Re:NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard

[zmollusc]

I would have thought that the temperatures and pressures in a fusion reactor could make quite a boom under the right(wrong) circumstances. That aside, like many other UK serfs, I am totally ok with ANY explosion that hits france earlier and harder than us. A meteor that vaporises france a few milliseconds before us would be a 'win'.