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:: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 ::

Europe puts France up for reactor. Leaders have chosen France as the possible European site for a new a new experimental nuclear fusion reactor. A final round of voting next month will decide on the final world site. (Interesting, whilst the UK has backed France, the US has backed Japan.) "Iter (International Thermonuclear Energy Reactor) will be the world's largest international cooperative R&D project next to the International Space Station", will cost $5bn, and in ten years time should lead to the construction of a commercial reactor. "In a fusion reaction, energy is produced when light atoms are fused together to form heavier atoms." Of course, that means light weight atoms not atoms of light cus there's no such thing.

:: Dan 26.11.03 [Arc]    ::
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