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Fusion Electricity to Become Part of European Grid by 2050

Mila Luleva — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 19:12:01 +0000

A road map that indicates how the energy of the stars , or fusion energy, can be added to the European grid by year 2050, was released by the European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA). Detailed review of the current status of fusion research, identification of open issues and development of new programmes and research will […]

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General Fusion Claims Cheap Nuclear Fusion Reactor: Competes With ITER

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:28:51 +0000

General Fusion, a small startup company from Canada, claims they can build a new type of a fusion power plant in the next ten years, and build it a lot cheaper than ITER - for less than a billion dollars. They have already gathered $13.5 million from various private and public investors, who understood their technology would work and want some share of the eventual profit.

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ITER: International Nuclear Fusion Reactor 40 Years from Now

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:34:22 +0000

The world's most expensive and exotic experiment was thought to be CERN. Few people know that the EU, US, China, and Japan have invested billions of dollars to construct the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) that would use nuclear fusion instead of fission, like all nuclear power plants do today.

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