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International Fusion reactor ITER is not progressing
The ITER construction and commissioning delayed. In addition, the budget must be increased. Fusion startups are, however, gorgeous. Ten years ago the ITER project, the international thermonuclear increased experimental, reactor by six countries and the European Union from the baptism. So far, the tokamak fusion reactor resulting in Cadarache, the French Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, seems slow to progress, technology review reported in its Online Edition (“fusion research: trembling at the ITER”). Now the French nuclear physicist and project director Bernard Bigot announced that the system–are not switched on before 2025, and ten years later the first fusion reaction was achieved. That would be a dozen years later as the original plan according to. The Panel of experts considers this schedule for plausible. But at the same time it does not believe that the final budget, which required admixtures of 4.6 billion euros, to cover funding gaps, is actually exposed. The issues related to the ITER fit so not into the public image of the sector of fusion research – at least, if you look at the private sector: there young companies like General collected Alpha energy risk capital to outstanding conditions fusion or tri and make progress in the construction of prototypes according to own statements. Tri alpha from Southern California took almost half a billion U.S. dollars from investors – including some prominent names such as investment bank Goldman Sachs, as well as Vulcan Ventures, the venture capital firm of Microsoft co-founder Paul all. The start-up already announced last August succeeded him under trying conditions, “to imprison a cloud of ionized plasma”, in which fusion reactions can take place.
14 Comments on "International Fusion reactor ITER is not progressing"
makati1 on Sat, 21st May 2016 8:12 pm
“International Fusion reactor ITER is not progressing”
Surprise! Surprise! NOT!
Bob Owens on Sat, 21st May 2016 8:41 pm
What is this article doing here?!
Go Speed Racer on Sat, 21st May 2016 10:54 pm
The Fusion Reactor is working perfectly. It is fusion of your tax dollars from your paycheck, into bundles of money which flow to ITER and release terrific amounts of larger paychecks to government researchers. The resultant flow of energy (Einstein proved that energy is equal to money squared times C) allows their paychecks to buy academics and researchers shiny new Volvo’s and put their kids thru college.
So the reactor is doing exactly what it is supposed to do, which is pay the researchers. All fusion reactors work in precisely this way.
If you actually want energy out of the reactor?? LOL cause I am saying fill the building full of old tires and carpeting, some drums of old diesel oil, and set it on fire and then you will get some heat out of that fusion reactor.
Kenz300 on Sun, 22nd May 2016 4:40 am
Nuclear energy is poisoning the planet…………
5 Years After Fukushima, ‘No End in Sight’ to Ecological Fallout
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/05/5-years-after-fukushima/
Nuclear energy is toxic to people and the planet…..
7 Top NRC Experts Break Ranks to Warn of Critical Danger at Aging Nuke Plants
http://ecowatch.com/2016/03/09/nrc-experts-warn-dangers-nuclear/
Nuclear energy is too costly and too dangerous…..
How much will it cost to store nuclear waste FOREVER and who will pay for it
Wind and solar energy are safer, cleaner and cheaper…..
peakyeast on Sun, 22nd May 2016 4:57 am
If the money on fusion power had gone into solar power – we would not only had real progress – we would have cheaper more efficient solar cells today.
On the idiocy scale this project is at the very top together with the political leaders.
bug on Sun, 22nd May 2016 6:53 am
Oh no, I am sad, the project may be cancelled.
Don’t worry another boondoggle is coming.
The hyperloop train needs money for research.
Davy on Sun, 22nd May 2016 7:10 am
Peaky, I second that and will add to it by saying the waste we throw at a wide spectrum of poor attitudes and lifestyles found in modern life. If one understands what is coming for example what is more important a sports stadium or sustainable and resilient actions like giving thousands of homes the solar basics.
joe on Sun, 22nd May 2016 9:48 am
One of the early inventors of electricity is said to have told a rich man who asked him what benefits electricity would mean and the inventor answered, ‘because, sir, you will be able to tax it and control the flow’.
Anyway the point about solar is a similar one to candles, candles were easy to make and hard to tax, so the government wasnt interested. Solar will be the same. Solar is going to be like buying a washing machine they most money will buy the most benefit. The actual extraction of energy will be free, unless people agree to pay a tax to authorities, then they could have a solar revolution tomorrow.
Truth Has A Liberal Bias on Sun, 22nd May 2016 11:06 am
Maybe they need to get Tom Whipple and his Ecat buddy Andrea Rossi on the job!
peakyeast on Sun, 22nd May 2016 3:38 pm
@Davy: Exactly ! I totally agree. Its disheartening to watch the insane waste in a time of dire need.
Rick Bronson on Sun, 22nd May 2016 6:29 pm
Next year, the Gen-4 High Temperature Reactor is starting in China.
In another front, a Solar power plant is coming up in UAE which will produce power at 2.99 US cents / KWh.
If these 2 become common, then the World does not need Fusion Power.
JuanP on Sun, 22nd May 2016 7:27 pm
Our attempt to build this thing proves how unhinged we are as a species. While our problems in today’s world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain ridiculously simple while at the same time completely unattainable because of our lack of common sense. All we needed to do was have fewer children and consume less. Unfortunately, most of us are just not wired for that.
Carlos Angulo Fernández on Mon, 23rd May 2016 4:23 am
No surprise here: no (enough) money, no results. The budget is riculously small. We need to concentrate 40 years of funding for each year’s budget for fussion.
dissident on Mon, 23rd May 2016 10:58 pm
What government researchers? Cut the ignorant BS “Speed Racer”. Researchers are on grants and not salaries from the construction of ITER. The money is going into the pockets of *private* companies who are contracting for everything from the building to the reactor parts. This “government” researchers are not part of the money flow like you believe. This project is about government bureaucrats and engineers working for the private sector. They are the ones making a killing and milking the taxpayer.
Your drivel is the same as the global warming denier BS about climate scientists driving Ferraris because denier idiots add up all the costs for supercomputer systems that go into private sector pockets and claim that it is the “government” researchers raking in all the money.