11. EUROfusion Organization Corrects All of Its False ITER Fusion Claims

Nov 232017
 

 

Nov. 23, 2017 – By Steven B. Krivit

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On Tuesday, this writer sent a letter to Petra Nieckchen, the head of media relations for EUROfusion, informing her that three Web pages on the organization’s Web site contained false claims about ITER. On Thursday, the fusion organization corrected the pages.

EUROfusion is a consortium that manages and funds European nuclear fusion research activities on behalf of 26 European Union member states, in addition to Switzerland and Ukraine and a hundred university and industrial laboratories.

Contrary to what has been nearly universally promoted by fusion advocates, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) is not designed to produce 10 times the power it will consume. Using the most favorable calculation, ITER will instead produce 1.6 times the power it consumes. Using the more conservative calculation, it will lose more power than it produces. Continue reading »

10. Head of U.K. Nuclear Fusion Center Concedes Inaccuracies

Nov 162017
 

Ian Chapman, CEO UKAEA

Nov. 16, 2017 — By Steven B. Krivit

Yesterday, Ian Chapman, the chief executive officer of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, acknowledged the inaccuracy of his statements about the performance of the U.K.’s biggest fusion reactor. Chapman’s inaccurate quote was published in the U.K. Sunday Times on Nov. 12, 2017.

Chapman is one of several fusion scientists who have consistently provided false and misleading statements about fusion reactor performance to the news media and public. Chapman told the Sunday Times that the U.K. Joint European Torus (JET) fusion reactor produced 16 megawatts (MW) of electrical power with a 25 MW input. If true, this would represent an efficiency of 64 percent.

In fact, the 16 MW output was in the form of heat, not electric power. More significant, instead of requiring 25 MW of electrical input power, the reactor required 700 MW of electrical input power. This means that the most powerful controlled nuclear fusion experiment in the world produced power equivalent to only 1 percent of the power it consumed. In other words, the result was a net loss of about 684 MW of electricity. Continue reading »

9. List of Corrected Fusion Power Statements on the ITER Web Site

Nov 072017
 

 

Nov. 7, 2017 – By Steven B. Krivit

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In the last 30 days, managers of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) have corrected false and misleading statements about the promised performance of the ITER fusion reactor.

The corrections directly address the issues identified in the New Energy Times investigative report “The ITER Power Amplification Myth,” published on Oct. 6, 2017, and an earlier New Energy Times report published on Jan. 12, 2017.

False and misleading 2008 statement by Neil Calder, former head of ITER public communications (Source)

The ITER message had been simple and repeated often, but it was factually incorrect. This misrepresentation was a key factor in the ITER organization’s efforts to secure $22 billion of public funding.

The fraudulent claims were effected by a) hiding the true amount of input power and b) using the misleading term “fusion power,” as explained in “The ITER Power Amplification Myth.” Below are before-and-after comparisons.

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8. ITER Organization Corrects Some of Its False Fusion Claims

Nov 072017
 

Nov. 7, 2017 – By Steven B. Krivit 

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In response to the Oct. 6, 2017, New Energy Times report “The ITER Power Amplification Myth,” managers of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), now under construction in southern France, have corrected some of the false and misleading statements on the organization’s Web site. (List of Corrections)

Representatives of the ITER Council at the June 2017 Meeting (Full List)

Representatives of the ITER Council at the June 2017 Meeting (List of Names)The ITER organization had told the public for years that, when complete, the nuclear fusion reactor will produce 500 megawatts (MW) of net power.

Here is an example of the false and misleading claim that, until recently, was published on an ITER Web site page specifically for members of the news media:

“ITER has been designed to produce 500 MW of output power for 50 MW of input power—or ten times the amount of energy put in.” (Archive copy)

That statement, as well as other false and misleading statements on the ITER Web site, has since been corrected.

The ITER organization, however, is still not transparent about its 500 MW claim. In contrast, here is an example of a factual and transparent statement about the ITER design capacity, as published on the Japanese ITER team’s Web site:

“Will ITER make more energy than it consumes? … ITER is about equivalent to a zero (net) power reactor, when the plasma is burning.” (Archive copy) Continue reading »

7. EUROfusion’s Role in the ITER Power Deception

Nov 072017
 

NOTE: On Nov. 23, in response to a Nov. 21 letter from this writer, EUROfusion made all necessary corrections to its three Web pages that contained false and misleading statements about ITER.

Nov. 7, 2017 – By Steven B. Krivit 

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The EUROfusion organization has been a key participant in the ITER power deception. Three pages from the EUROfusion organization’s Web site illuminate the organization’s false and misleading claims.

Generally, misleading or deceptive claims in science are not tolerated. In this case, however, members of the worldwide fusion community — with Japan a notable exception — have participated in or allowed the deception about nuclear fusion progress to run for decades.

The Japanese ITER team is the only participating group to clearly and transparently state the power capability of ITER:

“Will ITER make more energy than it consumes? … ITER is about equivalent to a zero (net) power reactor, when the plasma is burning.” (Archive copy) Continue reading »

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