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EU to push ahead on building a test fusion reactor
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4044895.stm
There are currently six parties involved. The EU has the support of China and Russia to build the reactor at Cadarache.
Japan has the backing of the US and South Korea to construct Iter at Rokkasho in the north of its territory.
A decision on the location should have been made a year ago - but the parties are deadlocked.
Europe would like Japan to stand down and accept a major support role. This would involve a materials testing facility needed for the commercial reactors that could come after Iter.
Japan, however, is adamant that it has the best candidate site and has been upset by the EU's negotiating tactics.
regardless of whether or not they win the poltics of it, theyll push ahead which can only be good news for europe
itll run for 35 years, and is the final test model whilst they work upon building the furst full scale prototype commerical reactor, so one day our electricity etc may not be fossil fuel based, well making the hydrogen will cost energy but turning it into helium which is fusion outdoes it thousands of times to one
and its clean with no radioactive products, but the process itself releases radiation but thats easy to control
There are currently six parties involved. The EU has the support of China and Russia to build the reactor at Cadarache.
Japan has the backing of the US and South Korea to construct Iter at Rokkasho in the north of its territory.
A decision on the location should have been made a year ago - but the parties are deadlocked.
Europe would like Japan to stand down and accept a major support role. This would involve a materials testing facility needed for the commercial reactors that could come after Iter.
Japan, however, is adamant that it has the best candidate site and has been upset by the EU's negotiating tactics.
regardless of whether or not they win the poltics of it, theyll push ahead which can only be good news for europe
itll run for 35 years, and is the final test model whilst they work upon building the furst full scale prototype commerical reactor, so one day our electricity etc may not be fossil fuel based, well making the hydrogen will cost energy but turning it into helium which is fusion outdoes it thousands of times to one
and its clean with no radioactive products, but the process itself releases radiation but thats easy to control
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only problem with fusion is containing the EXTREMLY hot temperatures, about 100 million degrees!!! this requires extremly well designed electromagents, and if they fail, well itll die anyway cause it needs to be held under high pressure
the problem is maintaining that containment and temperature, and at the moment that tends to use more energy than the useful energy we manage to obtain
its just a matter of time and investment then one day we'll have cheap virtually unlimited power for all of europe