EU to go it alone on nuclear project, if no deal with Japan

[papau]

Will French get ITER Thermonuclear Project, Japan get internat'l scientific computing?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&e=18&u=/afp/science_energy_iter_eu_japan

EU to go it alone on nuclear project, if no deal with Japan

BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU countries reiterated that they intended to press ahead (at Cadarache in southern France) with the construction of a pioneering nuclear energy project in France if talks with Japan, which also wants to host the facility, fail to reach a conclusion, EU sources said. <snip>

Of the six partners (EU,China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, United States) in the talks China and Russia support the French site, while the United States and South Korea back building ITER in Japan (at Rokkasho-mura in northern Japan).

Sources at the EU commission in Brussels said earlier this week that Tokyo might agree to a tradeoff scenario in which it lets ITER go to France if Japan gets to be host country for a new international scientific computing centre.

The project is not expected to generate electricity before 2050.

[mulethree]

1. ridiculous

Nuclear fusion energy, very important

So they band together for a commercial-scale experiment,

But fund it $350 Million a year (chickenfeed relative to its importance)

and now delay it by fighting over the site.

It will be obsolete before it produces any data.

Biggest issue seems to be how to decommission the plant when it's done. A few million pounds of low&medium level radioactive waste. The winner is the country that will just cover it up with dirt.