Payvand – As Iran nuclear talks resume, Voice of America broadcasts “Fusion for Peace” clean energy co-op message worldwide
Payvand – As Iran nuclear talks resume, Voice of America broadcasts “Fusion for Peace” clean energy co-op message worldwide
Press Release by Fusion for Peace (F4P) | 14 April 2012
Proposal to avert conflict by cooperating on clean energy becomes accessible to Farsi speakers in Iran and around the globe via VOA’s Persian News Network report
A proposal by US and Iranian physicists for cooperation on clean energy research and development as an alternative to confrontation was featured on Voice of America’s Persian News Network television on Tuesday, April 10, just three days before the resumption today of talks between Iran and the “Five plus one” countries. Appearing for 20 minutes on VOA’s “Ofogh (Horizon)” program, US physicist Eric Lerner described the “Fusion for Peace” initiative . “We are proposing a joint Iran-US program to develop aneutronic fusion power, an energy source that would be safe, clean and far cheaper than any now existing,” said Mr. Lerner. “If successful, it would make uranium fission and thus uranium enrichment obsolete and unnecessary. It would pave the way for the elimination of nuclear fission everywhere, so remove the issue of the confrontation.”
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