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U.S. to join international fusion project
The Washington Times ^
| January 30, 2003
Posted on 01/30/2003 4:24:57 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 30 (UPI) -- The United States will join negotiations to build and operate a major international fusion research project, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said Thursday.
Known as ITER -- from the Latin word meaning "the way" -- the project is intended to build on previous fusion concepts involving magnetic containment of high-temperature plasma, a state of matter so hot that even atoms cannot hold together.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energylist; fusion; realscience; techindex
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To: RightWhale
Less glamourous than plastics manufacturing? How boring is that?
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01/30/2003 6:01:36 PM PST
by
Indy Pendance
(They're not left, they're East)
To: RightWhale
Yup. One of my closest friends works for PECO. He'll have his twenty put in a few years from now, and me makes great money...But I work indoors :)
Of course, he didn't have to go through college and grad school... :/
To: Windcatcher
I also seem to remember that Boeing is a contractor for ITER. Some structure in the containment wall/blanket, I think. I thought ITER got bogged down with the usual Euro infighting crapola - They have been "negotiating" for years. Do you think something will actually happen now? Also, wasn't the Euro site in Spain?
What I really like about all of this is that it shows a deep intellectual sophistication on the part of Bush and his people. I truly doubt that the Clintonistas, Gore or the Eco-nazis have ever heard of ITER. There was a rumor about 8 months ago that we were going back into the deal. I told my leftie techno, eco-geek buddies (I live in NYC, so you can imagine what I go through) that Bush was hip to fusion; of course they had never heard of ITER. BTW, are you a physicist?
To: Indy Pendance
Material science ?, Polymers & ceramics ? (sigh)...I work as CADD op.
your sounds exciting...grass always greener... :)
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01/30/2003 8:38:10 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just be because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
To: CasearianDaoist
I have a Master's in Physics, but I work as a software developer. I decided to do what I like more (and to go where the money was).
To: pabianice
Is that 1701,-A,-B ?
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posted on
01/30/2003 8:41:23 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just be because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
To: Indy Pendance
Fuel cells for cars; fusion for the power grid.
traitorrapist42 was fixated on thongs.
Which is the limited intelligence in this picture?
To: skinkinthegrass
It's NX-01, actually, from the new "Enterprise" TV show.
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