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Patrick Moore on Nuclear Energy |
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The Washington Post has just published a contributed editiorial by Patrick Moore, one of the founders of GreenPeace, that makes a very strong case for nuclear energy as a critical next step in combating global warming. Patrick Moore (see his site at Greenspirit) is one of a number of rational environmentalists who are strongly advocating nuclear energy systems as a better alternative to the fossil fuel power plants that provide most of world's electrical power. Given the timescale on which the world is pursuing fusion power, and indeed, in almost any future that we can envision, nuclear energy, will provide a likely and viable bridge to fusion power systems. |
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Another Science misstep on fusion energy |
 
Another in a series of poorly researched articles on fusion energy has appeared in Science Magazine (Science 10 March 2006: Vol. 311. no. 5766, p. 1380). In this case the editor of Science, Donald Kennedy, has chosen to print a posthumous policy forum article by William Parkins on the prospects of fusion energy. The references cited, save for one note on nuclear fission, are dated 1976, 1976, 1976, 1997 (self-citation), 1975, 1978, and 1991. It |
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UFA concerns about FY 2007 budget |
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The University Fusion Association has released a one-page summary of its support for the President's decision to proceed with the ITER burning plasma experiment in the FY 2007 budget, but also expressing deep concern about the concomitant reductions in the domestic fusion program. The admistration's proposed budget would amount to a 10% reduction in university support for fusion research in programs across the U.S. It is precisely these programs would provide the training for the next generation of scientists that would make use of an ITER experiment and prepare for a longer term fusion energy program. These reductions are direct contradiction to the goals expressed in the recent National Academy Report |
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