  World nations inject $12.8-billion USD into the project
Comments     Threshold   By Le Québécois on 11/25/2006 6:21:03
AM , Rating: 3 ITER is just one of the first step in creating a
real fusion reactor. The way ITER will works is not a perfect
fusion reaction.  Normally a fusion reaction like the sun uses
it's own energy to nourish istself. ITER is different. It needs
to be feed a little amount of energy from an outside source to
works. From what I remember ITER will produce around 500MW while
needing an external source of energy of 50MW to works.  That's
why ITER has no chance to go BOOM. The second something wrong
would happend in the reactor a security system would cut ITER
energy sources and the fusion reaction will simply stop. The
heat needed for the fusion reaction to survive the way ITER
works can't be reach without this oustide source.  It's not like
a Fission reactor : when the fission begins, it nourish itself
and if nothing is done to controle or to stop the reaction, it
will continue to d