Green Light For ITER Fusion Project

brian0918 writes, "A seven-member international consortium has signed a formal agreement to build the $12.8 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). From the article: 'Representatives from China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States signed the pact, sealing a decade of negotiations. The project aims to research a clean and limitless alternative to dwindling fossil fuel reserves, although nuclear fusion remains an unproven technology.' ITER will be built 'in Cadarache, southern France, over the course of a decade, starting in 2008.'" If ITER is successful, a commercial reactor could be built by 2040. Funny, I seem to remember fusion researchers from Livermore in the 70s say that commercial power was 20 years away...

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Everyone around N. Korea is nuclear...

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What message are we sending to Kim Jong Il here? We have China, the European Union, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States all cooperating to build a giant nuclear device, and then to tell the one country in that area that isn't involved, North Korea, to abstain from any nuclear operations or face sanctions or worse...