France to Host fusion Reactor
France to host world’s first nuclear fusion plant
By Guy Faulconbridge
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Science’s quest to find a cheap and inexhaustible way to meet global energy needs took a major step forward on Tuesday when a 30-nation consortium chose France to host the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor.
After months of wrangling, France defeated a bid from Japan and signed a deal to site the 10-billion-euro ($12.18-billion) experimental reactor in Cadarache, near Marseille.
The project will seek to turn seawater into fuel by mimicking the way the sun produces energy. It would be cleaner than current nuclear reactors, would not rely on enriched uranium fuel or produce plutonium.
<rant>Being the largest consumer of energy in the world, and being that so much of our energy comes from foreign sources, WE (US of A) should be doing this.</rant>
