One year after Fukushima, time for a more mature debate on nuclear

Monday, March 12th 2012 - 22:10 UTC

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Since Fukushima, important developments have taken place. Germany has decided to shut down its fission plants. Moreover, in a referendum, 95% of the Italian public opposed plans to restart a nuclear programme in the country. Read full article

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briton
The end of nuclear power as we know it,
Oh well back to rowing a bike with a dynamo then .
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Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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thingsarerosy
”In the United States, President Barack Obama’s budget request for the magnetic fusion programme for fiscal year 2013 was $400 million dollars. However, the overall US domestic programme was stripped back to increase funding for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project whose budget, $26 billion dollars, has increased by a factor of 3 in the last 5 years.”

Regarding this quote, the entire domestic fusion community agrees that both the domestic program and ITER are equally important and should be funded. One major cut to domestic fusion spending is the shutdown of Alcator C-Mod on MIT's campus. ITER actually needs C-Mod to operate to be a successful experiment. Many of the American fusion scientists who will work on ITER are trained using Alcator C-Mod. PPPL and DIII-D are also taking severe cuts. Overall the funding cuts and proposed shutdowns are bad for fusion research. For more information about fusion, C-Mod and the budget, please visit http://fusionfuture.org
Mar 12th, 2012 - 11:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Idlehands
If they do manage to develop fusion power it will transform mankind.

In the meantime we should litter West Falkland with fission reactors (there must be room for hundreds) and lay a big fat cable through the atlantic to the UK. Don't want those risky bits of kit too near the UK.
Mar 13th, 2012 - 10:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
a northern line exention to the falklands is possible,
it only needs money.lol.
Mar 13th, 2012 - 06:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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