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June 28, 2005
Nuclear Fusion plant to be built in France
As expected, France is to build the first experimental nuclear fusion reactor (ITER) at a cost of 10 bilion euros, at Cadarache near Aix-en-Provence. The project is supported by the EU, Japan, the Russian Federation and the USA.
Offering potentially the holy grail of limitless clean energy, it will nevertheless be ten years before the reactor at Cadarache becomes operational and several decades after that before there is any possibility of the commercial development of nuclear fusion energy, assuming that technical problems have been overcome en route.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4629239.stm#
Posted by Simon Holledge at June 28, 2005 10:52 PM
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