[snowsislander]

I think this one might well become two projects.

I would certainly rather have the Japanese doing the engineering rather than the French.

[bahblahbah]

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.

[Texas_Jarhead]

I didn't think the US was participating in this project... Is that incorrect?

[McGavin999]

Build two, and let's see which one works first. I'd bet on the US/Korea/Japan plant.

[iso]

I hope it build in UK .

[xJones]

Please, may the Japanese get the reactor contract and not the French!

[Syntyr]

"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.

[Physicist]

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.

[Wiz]

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.

[Cicero]

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.

[raybbr]

Maybe we could use Naqada.

[Syntyr]

Great Fusion resource

http://www.radwaste.org/fusion.htm

[FierceDraka]

Give it to our Japanese allies. They've always been better at everything than the Europeans. (Japan was the only Asian nation to successfully resist every attempt at European domination and colonization. America doesn't count - we are NOT Europeans, and they started the fight with us.)

[Nick Danger]

Europe and Japan in heated clash over fusion reactor

Here's an idea... fuse them!