Energy Source Could Power Earth 'for 30M Years' - But ITER, a thermonuclear plant, faces all sorts of challenges

Energy Source Could Power Earth 'for 30M Years' - But ITER, a thermonuclear plant, faces all sorts of challenges: "NEWSER) – Hoping scientists will find a brilliant alternative to oil and coal? How about a thermonuclear reactor that will hit temperatures ten times hotter than the sun and "could solve the world's energy problems for the next thirty million years," writes Raffi Khatchadourian in the New Yorker. The project—called the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in France—only needs to overcome rock-bottom morale, constant delays, tensions between engineers around the world, grumbling politicians, and a multi-billion-dollar budget that's never quite high enough. "There is a lot of anxiety here that it is all going to implode," says a physicist."



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