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Green Light For ITER Fusion Project

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-where's-my-rocket-plane dept.

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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  1. FP!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HAHAHA

  2. Everyone around N. Korea is nuclear... by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 0, Troll

    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...

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  3. Re:Environmentalists from bizarro world. by alexhard · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't try to understand these hippies, it's futile..

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  4. Re:Environmentalists from bizarro world. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I can't speak for everyone, as an already relatively efficient American who happens to like his current standard of living and is sick and tired of Al Gore's rhetoric and fear-mongering receiving more focus in the climate change discussion than the actual climate models and research, I whole-heartedly include myself in the "we" of that statement. The US could certainly do more to reduce emissions, but for the power we consume, we're already the most efficient (or very nearly so) in the world producing.

  5. Re:Why not rush it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hahahahahaha... Hahahahahahaha.... You shitheaded American. The Hilton's are hard workers. Hahahahaha. Probably Gates and Murdoch, too, right? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Fucking suit-wearing do-nothing white collar exploitative colonial massah massah slavedrivers, that's what they are.

    Hard work! They've never done a day's work in their lives. They just tell others what to do and sell the skin off their underlings' backs for profit.

    Hahahahahahahaha... You motherfucking Americans are too much.