AAAS – Live Chat: The Fate of Fusion
American Association for the Advancement of Science – Live Chat: The Fate of Fusion
by Daniel Clery | 22 February 2012 – 2:51 PM
With threats such as climate change and declining oil stocks looming, we should be going all out to find alternative sources of energy. Nuclear fusion seems like the perfect solution, with virtually limitless supplies of fuel, no greenhouse gases, and little radioactive waste. U.S. researchers have been working to master fusion for decades and are partners in ITER, a global project to build a huge fusion reactor in France which is currently under construction. But they were shocked last week when in President Barack Obama’s 2013 budget request their funding was cut by 0.8% to $398 million just at the same time as U.S. payments for ITER rose from $105 million to $150 million.
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