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

A little bit disappointed, but there's an upside

[Theo de Raabt]

I have nothing against France (only some French), but I was warmly hoping that Japan gets the project. In my view, Japan is so perfectly suited, technology and mentality-wise, to pull this off. Still, France is OK, because they are one of the countries with highest % of nuclear energy. So much so, in fact, that they make a lot of good money exporting it. And get this: one of the largest importers (the largest?) offrench electric energy is Germany, who have outlawed and disbanded their nuclear plants due to Green misguided pressure, and are now a) polluting themselves with coal plants, which actually produce more radioactive waste than nuclear plants of same energy output (not to mention other pollutants). b) paying for el. energy to France, which is produced by nuclear plants which are close enough to Germany, that if a meltdown happened, they would be just as affected! There is something humorous in all this.

correction

[Anonymous Coward]

France will be the worlds 2nd site for (sustained) nuclear fusion. It's been up and running at the Navys undersea research facility off the coat of Maine. Trust me I know.

Especially irritating

[Moiche]

What I find especially irritating about this dupe is that I emailed the "on-duty-editor" about it 5 minutes before it got posted. :P What's the point?

--Moiche

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[Master of Transhuman]

on my page, anyway.

And it's a fucking CONTRACT, for Christ's sake! They haven't even BUILT the goddamn thing yet! Do we really need TWO stories on THAT?