23. U.K. Atomic Energy Authority Corrects False and Misleading ITER Claims
June 26, 2018 – By Steven B. Krivit
Nick Holloway, the media manager for the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority and Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, the United Kingdom’s premier nuclear fusion research facility, has corrected the agency’s false and misleading statements about ITER in response to letters from New Energy Times.
Original CCFE Text:
“[ITER] is expected to prove the feasibility of electricity generation from fusion by releasing some 500 megawatts of fusion power (from a 50 megawatt input) for up to 500 seconds. It will be the first fusion experiment to produce net power – ten times more than the amount required to heat the plasma.”
Revised CCFE Text:
“[ITER] is designed to produce a plasma that releases 500 megawatts of power from fusion reactions, during pulses of up to 600 seconds.”
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