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First Fusion Reactor Could Be Online By 2016
Beijing (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2006 The world's first fusion power reactor will be built as part of an international research project by 2016, a leading Russian nuclear physicist said Friday. Russia, the United States, the European Union, China, India, Japan and South Korea are taking part in the $12.1 billion project, known by the acronym ITER, to demonstrate the scientific and technological potential of nuclear fusion amid concerns over growing energy consumption and the impact of conventional fossil fuels on the environment. Yevgeny Velikhov, president of the Kurchatov Institute of Nuclear Physics, said an agreement on the project will be signed in Paris November 21. "We expect substantive work to begin next January," he said, adding that the first plasma operation is expected in 2016. The reactor will be built in France's Cadarache, with the European Union covering 40% of the costs and the other participants contributing 10% each. The first electricity-producing fusion power plant is to be built by 2030, most probably in Japan, Velikhov said. "We believe that by the end of the century, nuclear fusion will account for a significant proportion of the energy humanity generates for itself," Velikhov said, praising it as an environmentally benign and essentially inexhaustible power source.
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Examining The Impact Of Renewable Energy On The Electric Power Grid
Troy NY (SPX) Nov 13, 2006With a $1.23 million grant, researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will be creating a distributed power "test-bed" to study how the electricity distribution grid might be affected by the widespread adoption of clean, renewable energy sources. |
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