World’s Leading Powers Agree To Finance Mankind's Most Daring Project: To Harness The Explosive Power Of The Sun In Fusion Project
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World’s
Leading Powers Agree To Finance Mankind's Most
Daring Project: To Harness The Explosive Power
Of The Sun In Fusion Project
It is one of mankind’s most daring
experiments – a quest to produce virtually
limitless clean energy that, if successful,
would revolutionise life on Earth by
harnessing the explosive power of the sun. The
energy problems that already beset our
species, and look certain to dominate the
future, would be wiped out at a stroke. The
pollution of fossil fuels would be a thing of
the past. The oil beneath the Gulf of Mexico
could remain, safely unmolested. Such is the
appeal of the idea that the greatest powers of
the world, China, India, Japan, South Korea,
Russia, America and the nations of the
European Union, have united to pursue the same
stellar objective. Their aim is commercially
viable nuclear fusion – deriving energy from
crushing together the nuclei in atoms rather
than splitting them, as is done currently in
nuclear fission reactors. The process at the
heart of the idea is breathtakingly simple,
hinging on Einstein’s most celebrated
equation: e = mc2. There is just one hitch. It
is not that the realisation of this dream will
require an extraordinary and co-ordinated feat
of technological innovation and daredevilry.
It is that, until now, the world’s largest
nuclear fusion project, the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter), has
been consuming far greater quantities than
predicted of its most-needed fuel: cash.