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Europe and Japan in heated clash over fusion reactor
The Observer (U.K.) ^
| 12/12/04
| Robin McKie and Angela Saini
Posted on 12/11/2004 6:38:23 PM PST by Pokey78
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:38:24 PM PST
by
Pokey78
To: Pokey78
I think this one might well become two projects.
I would certainly rather have the Japanese doing the engineering rather than the French.
To: Pokey78
Can't Japan and the United States just build one ourselves. Its not like the Eurotrash, Chicoms, or the Ruskans are going to put much money into it.
To: Pokey78; All
I didn't think the US was participating in this project... Is that incorrect?
To: Pokey78
Build two, and let's see which one works first. I'd bet on the US/Korea/Japan plant.
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:45:37 PM PST
by
McGavin999
(George Soros just learned a very expensive lesson-America can't be bought.)
To: Pokey78
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:46:11 PM PST
by
iso
To: snowsislander
French= Militant Islamists. At least that's who will control the country before long.
Japan will still have a country because they have a sane immigration policy and insist would-be citizens prove not only the ability to be self-supporting but to get along with the native Japanese.
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:46:23 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(crime would drop like a sprung trapdoor if we brought back good old-fashioned hangings)
To: Pokey78
Please, may the Japanese get the reactor contract and not the French!
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:49:17 PM PST
by
xJones
To: Pokey78
"It is really just an issue of scale,' said Sir Chris Llewellyn-Smith, head of Culham's fusion programme.
The bigger reac tor would generate much more power than it would consume."
No not exactly. The more Dueterium and Tritium you pump in the bigger the plasma and the bigger the magnetic field that would have to be in order to encompass the plasma. Also the more power the NBI lasers need to superheat the plasma. It is not as simple as "Oh make it bigger and we get positive power returns" Theoretically there is a point at which we should be able to get more power out than we put in but nobody knows where that is and how to get there... Not saying it shouldn't be explored because it needs to be. But that scientist shouldn't make it sound so simple.
All that said this is awesome stuff.
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:51:29 PM PST
by
Syntyr
To: Pokey78
At this point, we should just go it alone. Throw as much money into it as it takes. This isn't an economic issue anymore, but a matter of national security. We need fusion (and hydrogen fuel cells) as soon as possible, so that we can stop giving trillions of dollars to people who want to see us dead.
To: snowsislander
France is like that mean little girl on rug rats**
John
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:52:55 PM PST
by
jrfaug06
To: Pokey78
While EU have considered to build ITER on their own and depart from the international agreement, ambassador of Japan in France criticized that the action was against multinational partnership, a concept which European countries have cried many times for against the US in Iraq War. Now the EU is one step close practicing unilateralism on their own.
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:54:30 PM PST
by
Wiz
To: Physicist
Aren't there a couple of small fusion test beds in the US already?
To: Physicist
Nah, let them blow their money on trial and error until we know it will work for certain, then we copy it.
To: Texas_Jarhead
May you give me some information about that ?
Thanks .
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posted on
12/11/2004 6:59:54 PM PST
by
iso
To: iso
Not sure which of my posts you are referring to but either way I don't have any more info to offer. I was kind of looking for some feedback myself...
To: Pokey78
I haven't really looked into this for a couple of years, but I doubt whether they will produce anything workable or economically feasible for quite a few years. It's still uncertain whether it can be done, although I agree that we should continue to pursue it.
The last country that should be allowed to control this project is France, in any case.
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posted on
12/11/2004 7:11:27 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Nil illegitemus carborundum est)
To: bahblahbah
To: Texas_Jarhead
Haven't kept up with the latest, but last I heard, Lawrence Livermore has a small Tokomak that they ware experimenting with.
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posted on
12/11/2004 7:37:44 PM PST
by
semaj
("....by their fruit you will know them.")
To: Tealc
Maybe we could use Naqada.
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posted on
12/11/2004 7:46:33 PM PST
by
raybbr
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