NEWS: France to host multi-billion International Fusion Project ITER, page
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Topic started on 28-6-2005 @ 05:44 AM by Moretti
France has won the award of the 10bn euro international nuclear fusion research project ITER. The project will be hosted in the southern french Cadarache site, where it will employ around 10.000 researchers and technicians, starting 2014.



news.yahoo.com
MOSCOW (AFP) - The six partners in the revolutionary ITER nuclear energy reactor agreed that France would host the multi-billion-dollar project, which is designed to emulate the power of the sun.

"Under this declaration, France is chosen as the site," said Antonia Mochane, spokeswoman for EU Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik.

Japan earlier withdrew its bid to host the 10-billion-euro (12-billion-dollar) project, clearing the way for the site of Cadarache, in southern France.

Its backers hope that ITER will provide a cheap, clean and safe way to meet the world's future energy needs.

The project seeks to harness nuclear fusion, the same principle that powers the Sun and the stars, instead of splitting the atom -- the principle behind the atomic bomb and present-day nuclear plants.

The six partners in the project are the
European Union, the United States, Russia, Japan,
South Korea and China.


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Science is progressing. Hopefully ITER will see the breakthrough towards affordable fusion technology, as the advent of nuclear fusion would solve the sharpening world energy crisis.


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