PR Log – US and Iranian physicists team up to launch “Fusion for Peace” initiative
PR Log – US and Iranian physicists team up to launch “Fusion for Peace” initiative
24 March 2012
Three physicists, one US and two Iranian, have issued a statement proposing a joint US-Iran research collaboration that they contend could be an alternative to confrontation and war and, if successful, could “make uranium enrichment obsolete, block proliferation everywhere, liberate the world from oil, and open up a new source of cheap, clean unlimited energy.”
The proposal, published in the online newspaper OpEdNews, calls on the US and Iranian governments to set up a joint US-Iran Aneutronic Fusion Program to research methods of producing nuclear fusion energy without the production of neutrons. Aneutronic fusion devices can be extremely compact and economical to build, so they can be researched far more quickly and cheaply than the deuterium-tritium fusion devices that have been the mainline of fusion research. In the past few years, Iran and the US have become the leading countries pursuing this category of fusion devices. If they can be developed, they would provide safe, clean energy far more cheaply than uranium-based nuclear fission, and would thus make the entire uranium enrichment cycle obsolete.
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