31. World Nuclear News Gets Fooled Again by False ITER Power Claim

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Jan. 30, 2019 – By Steven B. Krivit –

World Nuclear News published another news story today with the false ITER power claim: “ITER is a major international project to build a 500 MW tokamak fusion device (requiring an input of 50 MW) designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy.” (Archive Copy)

The reactor is actually designed to consume a minimum of 300 MW of electricity during peak plasma production. World Nuclear News is one of many news and governmental organizations that has been deceived by the misleading communications of fusion representatives for more than a decade.

If all goes according to plan, the ITER rector will produce about zero net power and prove that scientists can take 300 MW of electricity and turn it into 500 MW of fusion particles. (Archive Copy)