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Is nuclear fusion a likely solution to climate change? Is fusion a
viable energy alternative?
For 70 years, fusion scientists have promoted new design concepts,
pointed to computer models, and unequivocally stated that fusion is the
answer.
But where is the experimental evidence that the scientific method
demands? And why has energy from nuclear fusion always been 20 years away?
In a 1993 hearing, nuclear fusion research representatives convinced the
U.S. Congress to spend public money on ITER, the International
Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor. ITER, they said, was the way to
fusion energy. Elected officials in Europe, Japan, and the Soviet Union
also agreed to fund ITER. Later, China, India, and South Korea joined
the partnership.
The evidentiary foundation for ITER, they said, was the Joint European
Torus fusion reactor, which, they implied, produced thermal power from
fusion at a rate of 66 percent of the reactor input power. That
foundation, as it turns out, was flawed.
Sometime around 2045, the $65 billion ITER project is expected to run
its final experiments, which should produce, for 500 seconds, a thermal
power output rate equivalent to the overall reactor electrical power
input rate. Although this result would accomplish its scientific
objective, the overall reactor output will be equivalent to a zero
net-power reactor.
Instead, the fusion representatives told Congress, the public, and the
news media that the ITER reactor would produce millions of Watts of
power, ten times the power the reactor would consume. They said it would
prove that fusion on Earth is commercially viable.
But the scientists didn’t disclose that the reactor would also consume
millions of Watts of electrical power. They didn’t explain that the
reactor is designed only for a power gain of the physics reactions,
rather than a power gain of the overall reactor. If ITER works as
designed, the 70-year research program will end up with a reactor that
produces no overall net energy.
ITER, The Grand Illusion: A Forensic Investigation of Power Claims,
featuring members of Congress, prominent representatives of the fusion
community, and the two former spokesmen of the ITER organization,
reveals the details of this story.
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