Scientific obstacles

Article Abstract:

Nuclear fusion energy research has already achieved much success despite the fact that fusion energy has yet to be accessed for public benefits. There are many scientific problems that are blocking the way to success. The main dilemmais the puzzling reaction of plasma confinement in which energy released suddenly declines as fusion reaction nears 90% of its break-even point of energy input and energy output. Another complication is that nuclear fusion is viewed more as a commercial project, making it more costly, rather than purely a scientific research.

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Global collaboration

Article Abstract:

The US no longer has the monopoly on nuclear fusion energy research. The US, the EC, Japan and Russia has sealed an agreement last July 1992 for the development of a $1.2 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) to be finished within six years. Basically, ITER will pick up where BPX left off in staging plasma experiments. One possible environmental problem that may arise regarding the ITER agreement is the location on which it would be built. However, Japan has sought legal permissionto host the ITER project.

International aspects, Fusion reactors

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