Nuclear Fusion Power plant Announced

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Nuclear Fusion -- the energy creating process which occurs in the sun

This power plant will be based in france and will allow us to create abundabt <relativly> clean energy , the process was thought impossible for humans to replicate as little as 15 years ago but now a deal has been brokered to construct such a power plant in france

In a fusion reaction, energy is produced when light atoms - the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium - are fused together to form heavier atoms.

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To use controlled fusion reactions on Earth as an energy source, it is necessary to heat a gas to temperatures exceeding 100 million Celsius - many times hotter than the centre of the Sun.

The technical requirements to do this, which scientists have spent decades developing, are immense. But the rewards, if Iter can be made to work successfully, are extremely attractive.

One kilogram of fusion fuel would produce the same amount of energy as 10,000,000 kg of fossil fuel.

Fusion does produce radioactive waste but not the volumes of long-term high-level radiotoxic materials that have so burdened nuclear fission.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4629239.stm





 
name='limqareb' said:
very cool i must say but is it cost effective?
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very very much so this is one of the most efficient energy production methods we have conceived (except zero-point energy generation but that is many many years off) it is thought that these plants should lower energy costs (after R&D costs are paid) and quench the current need for energy the world has (espesially china)
 
name='ionicle' said:
wow! lookin good:D hope they build one in the u.k cos i just got my new razor mouse and it needs power lol
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you seriously want a nuclear power station near your house??? and also the costs to get rid of nuclear waste of extremely high and eventually we will run out of space to put it.
 
name='Dave' said:
you seriously want a nuclear power station near your house??? and also the costs to get rid of nuclear waste of extremely high and eventually we will run out of space to put it.
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Its a FUSION plant not a Fission <current tech> one; fusion gives out 0 emmisions <its atoms fusing instead of splitting>

fusion does produce waste but much much less than fission.. the only main problem is it also genereates much more energy than fission and relys on a steady powerful electromagnetic field to maintain stability, if it were to go down well hiroshima will look like nothing in comparison.

http://www.fusion.org.uk/focus/
 
ah i dont know much about fusion, ill take a look at link though. not that this has anything to do with the sort of technology we are interested in her at sx
 
there was a film in which Val Kilmer took part (i think the name was the saint ) and it was about cold fusion and how it was meant to produce free energy
 
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