11. EUROfusion Organization Corrects All of Its False ITER Fusion Claims
Nov. 23, 2017 – By Steven B. Krivit
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.
After the Oct. 6, 2017, publication of the New Energy Times article “The ITER Power Amplification Myth,” the ITER organization corrected most of its false and misleading statements about the projected power amplification of the reactor, under construction now in southern France.
On Thursday, the EUROfusion organization went further in its corrections than the ITER organization. Until Thursday, both organizations claimed on their Web sites that ITER would be the first fusion device to produce a net surplus of energy. EUROfusion removed that statement yesterday, as well. Instead, the EUROfusion organization’s JET page now says that the DEMO reactor, which is planned to succeed ITER, is expected to produce a net surplus of energy.
The EUROfusion organization has been a key participant in the ITER power hoax for several years. The false claims have appeared on the EUROfusion Web site, according to the archive.org Web site, at least since 2015. The Nov. 7 New Energy Times article “EUROfusion’s Role in the ITER Power Deception” explains in detail the false and misleading statements that were on the EUROfusion Web site. The images below show the before-and-after changes to the three pages.
These are the links to the EUROfusion Web pages depicted in the images below:
FAQ Page (BEFORE)
FAQ Page (AFTER)
ITER Page (BEFORE)
ITER Page (AFTER)
JET Page (BEFORE)
JET Page (AFTER)
