French Journalist Noé Girard-Blanc Continues ITER Power Exposé
May 26, 2023
By Steven B. Krivit
For at least twelve years, promoters of ITER misled editors of the French Wikipedia site to unknowingly spread a false claim about the fundamental purpose of the ITER project. The Wikipedia page, in turn, misled every person who read it for those twelve years. Today, French journalist Noé Girard-Blanc has set the record straight in a 12-minute video on YouTube.
The false claim appeared on the page on Sept. 18, 2006, with this addition: “Le premier [objectif] est de générer une puissance de 500 mégawatts en n’en consommant que 50 [mégawatts], durant 400 secondes (6 minutes 40 secondes). Le record mondial est de 16 mégawatts générés pour une puissance fournie de 25 MWatt, durant 1 seconde, réalisé par le Tokamak anglais [[JET]].”
EN: “The first [objective] is to generate power of 500 megawatts by consuming only 50 [megawatts], for 400 seconds (6 minutes 40 seconds). The world record is 16 megawatts generated for a supplied power of 25 megawatts, for 1 second, made by the English Tokamak [[JET]].”
Twelve years later, after learning the power facts, I made corrections to the French ITER Wikipedia page.
To watch the video below with English subtitles on YouTube:
1.Click settings, click subtitles/cc
2.Click FRENCH AUTO-GENERATED
3.Go back to settings, subtitles, click AUTO-TRANSLATE, English
