Eat your heart out yanks :)

[TwoSeven]

The french got the fusion deal :)

Just managed to nick it from the japanese.


Interesting to see the so called 'world technology leaders' were a no-show.


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Gaule96.jpg
Maybe they could make the charles de gaul fusion powered instead of fission powered.

[Mooch]

Hope it works out nothing like the last one .....

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/2003127.asp

[TwoSeven]

I understand they have got most of the bugs out of it now - finally. Only hope the french learn from it.

[Biff]

While based in France, it's the Europeans that managed to clinch the deal from the Japanese, although the Japs will be responsible for up to 20% of the workforce and research facilities.

Fingers crossed that it works, and that they don't create a bloody wormhole!

[ManDownUnder]

"the fusion deal"?

You mean fusion reactor - or is this referring to some project or purchase codename?
MDU

[bugjuice]

"the fusion deal"?

You mean fusion reactor - or is this referring to some project or purchase codename?
MDU
you know too much. S.W.A.T. are now on your case!! :ar15: :2guns:

[ManDownUnder]

you know too much. S.W.A.T. are now on your case!! :ar15: :2guns:

bugger... just one thing before I go... (die)...

are we talking about a fusion reactor or .... ooo I get the feeling I'm repeating myself now...

[TwoSeven]

Yes reactor. New Zealand should catch up with the news in the next 24 hours :)

[Timber020]

Right, I need a BIG mortar, a ticket to france and a few years planning.

TIME FOR FRANCE TO TRY SOME NUKE TESTING

[TwoSeven]

lol.. Its fusion not fission.

All you need is a bucket of sea water and a large amount of heat.

[Biff]

Fingers crossed...............................

[Ixion]

Ohhhh I like this. I like things that make BIG BANGS. Should be possible to tinker that to make a VERY big bang. (memo to self. Go a LONG way away before lighting blue touch paper)

[ManDownUnder]

Fingers crossed...............................

Jees Biff - you're rich, debonaire, opinionated, handsome, ride a nice bike, a pervert and now it seems ... intelligent!

Are you too good to be true?

:rofl:

[ManDownUnder]

Ohhhh I like this. I like things that make BIG BANGS. Should be possible to tinker that to make a VERY big bang. (memo to self. Go a LONG way away before lighting blue touch paper)

Yeah - the things is they don't want a big bang... (they did that over Japan...).

The results weren't encouraging...

A really bright, hot, ongoing kind of "fizzzzzz" would be good though!

[Biff]

Jees Biff - you're rich, debonaire, opinionated, handsome, ride a nice bike, a pervert and now it seems ... intelligent!

Are you too good to be true?

:rofl:

Shucks, thanks. Now get your nose out of my arse and clean my car, peasant. :whistle:

[Brian d marge]

Yeah - the things is they don't want a big bang... (they did that over Japan...).

The results weren't encouraging...
!

That because we used Taskforce green workers to carry the buckets of u radi atum to the furnace ,,,

Things should be better with fission ,,as the buckets now contain sea water the whales/fish no longer use ...and as long as they keep throwing the water on the fire ,,the temp wont go high ,,,
Its lunch times and shift changes I worry about ,,I mean you dont want a smoking hole in the floor ..as I think it will carry on through to the other side ,,,which means suddenly in Napier its going to get hot ....assuming it made in france !!

Stephen
BTW The warehouse buckets are unsuitable due to the chemicals in the seawater around france

[Bartman10]

By Lucy Sherriff - www.theregister.co.uk
Published Wednesday 29th June 2005 13:47 GMT

The European Union announced yesterday that the world's largest ever fusion reactor will be built in France, at a total cost of around $12bn.

Competition to secure the 30-year International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has been intense, but Japan withdrew its bid last week leaving the floor open for the French bid. The US and South Korea has been supporters of the Japanese bid, but the French option had the backing of the EU, China and Russia.

The ultimate goal of the project is to finally crack the problem of how to tap into the immense power of nuclear fusion. Fusion is the same process that goes on in the centre of the sun, and it holds the promise of almost inexhaustible, clean safe energy generation.

For nuclei to fuse, a plasma needs to be heated up to several hundred million degrees while it is contained within an intense magnetic field. The trick will be finding a way of doing this without putting in more energy than is generated.

The problem is that the solution is always, and has always been 25 (or so) years away.

The details of how the project will be financed have still got to be hashed out, but the EU is expected to pick up 40 per cent of the tab, France a further 10 per cent, with the remainder shared between the other international partners: the US, Russia, Japan, South Korea and China.

Once the facility has been built, experiments are expected to start in about 2015. The research is likely to continue for around 20 years.

In the best case scenario, a demonstration plant would be built in 2030, with the technology being developed commercially by the middle of the century.

[TwoSeven]

Ohhhh I like this. I like things that make BIG BANGS. Should be possible to tinker that to make a VERY big bang. (memo to self. Go a LONG way away before lighting blue touch paper)

As far as I am aware 'no bang is provided with fusion'. Its more of a big fizzle unless the containment craps out, then half the country catches fire :)