[ RadSafe ] Nuclear Fusion Project Struggles to Put the Pieces Together

[Harrison, Tony]

The world's largest scientific project is threatened with further delays,
as agencies struggle to complete the design and sign contracts worth
hundred of millions of euros with industrial partners, *Nature *has learned.

ITER is a massive project designed to show the feasibility of nuclear
fusion as a power source. The device consists of a doughnut-shaped reactor
called a tokamak, wrapped in superconducting magnets that squeeze and heat
a plasma of hydrogen isotopes to the point of fusion. The result should be
something that no experiment to date has been able to achieve: the
controlled release of ten times more energy than is consumed.
More here:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-fusion-project-struggles-to-put-the-pieces-together

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Tony Harrison, MSPH

Inorganic & Radiochemistry Supervisor

Laboratory Services Division

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment

8100 Lowry Blvd.

Denver, CO  80230

303-692-3046 | tony.harrison at state.co.us