Originally published February 4 2006
India reveals worldwide nuclear fusion project
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) team, comprised of China, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Russia, the U.S. and now India, will begin construction of its reactor in France in the near future, and the construction is slated to take at least a decade.
It joins China, the EU, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) team.
The 10bn euro (�6.7bn) Iter project is designed to produce electricity using nuclear fusion, as happens in the Sun.
An Iter statement on India's accession comments: "With this exciting new development, over half the world's population is now represented in this global endeavour."
Iter will be the second largest science project in history after the International Space Station.
ITER - NUCLEAR FUSION PROJECT Iter reactor, BBC Project estimated to cost 10bn euros and will run for 35 years It will produce the first sustained fusion reactions Final stage before full prototype of commercial reactor is built After decades of experimentation at national and regional level, it should demonstrate once and for all whether it is possible to harness the tremendous potential of nuclear fusion in a practical and economic way.
These pressures cannot be created on Earth, so temperatures need to be much higher - above 100 million degrees Celsius.
No materials could withstand direct contact with such heat; the favoured solution is to hold a super-heated gas, or plasma, of hydrogen fuel inside an intense doughnut-shaped magnetic field.
Unlike the burning of fossil fuels, fusion reactions produce no carbon dioxide and so the process contributes almost nothing to the greenhouse effect.
It is also inherently powerful, and could potentially provide a solution to the energy shortages coming over the course of this century.
But the huge technical issues involved prompt sceptics to suggest it may never work
India's involvement in the project, which has been welcomed by the European Commission and the US administration, suggests that it is among the optimists.
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