ITER to Cadarache, Provence, France
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The international community
For
ITER
to Cadarache, Provence, France.
.the water in our oceans alone could meet world energy needs for around a billion years
We Americans and other members of the international community will not support a site where no fusion research has ever been conducted.
We want this important choice of site to be governed by objective merits of the candidates only; not political horsetrading!
By signing this petition we, like the majority of the ITER Consortium, second Cadarache France, site of Tore Supra, an Iter precursor, for construction site of the Nuclear Fusion Reactor, due to its considerable human resources, its financial commitment, competence, technical expertise and solid safety guarantees.
We also believe that the quality lifestyle and beauty of Provence, with the Alps and the Mediterranean see within an hours drive, only 2.5 hours away from Paris by TGV, will continue to attract the international top researchers and their families to what is becoming also a sophisticated, cosmopolitan community with a highly developed infrastructure for expatriates.
We consider Cadarache France, the ideal candidate to succeed with the ITER project, both for the construction and the exploitation phase.
Why The ITER Project?
(International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)
ITER is the largest and boldest scientific co-operation project on a world-wide scale. With a cost of around 10 billion dollars, the construction phase will last for 10 years and the exploitation phase for 20 years.
Based on research developed for over 40 years on a world-wide scale, the ITER project is based on controlled fusion, aiming to reproduce on Earth the process that powers our Sun and other stars: thermonuclear fusion.
Its goal will be to produce 500 megawatts of fusion power for 500 seconds or longer during each individual fusion experiment and, in doing so, demonstrate essential technologies for a commercial reactor.
Controlled fusion is a major scientific and technological challenge, which could, in time, provide solutions to the crucial issue of providing new clean long-term energy resources. Unlike fission energy, fusion energy is a source of hope in terms of creating an abundant source of clean energy, with little or no waste, in the 21st century; this at a time when fossil fuel shortages are just 50 years away.
Scientists say it will be the first fusion device to produce thermal energy at the level of a conventional electricity-producing power station. Deuterium and tritium are abundant and cheap fuels - deuterium is extracted from seawater and tritium is made from the common element lithium.
Just 300 litres of seawater provide one gram of deuterium. This means that the water in our oceans alone could meet world energy needs for around a billion years.
For
ITER
to Cadarache, Provence, France.
.the water in our oceans alone could meet world energy needs for around a billion years
We Americans and other members of the international community will not support a site where no fusion research has ever been conducted.
We want this important choice of site to be governed by objective merits of the candidates only; not political horsetrading!
By signing this petition we, like the majority of the ITER Consortium, second Cadarache France, site of Tore Supra, an Iter precursor, for construction site of the Nuclear Fusion Reactor, due to its considerable human resources, its financial commitment, competence, technical expertise and solid safety guarantees.
We also believe that the quality lifestyle and beauty of Provence, with the Alps and the Mediterranean see within an hours drive, only 2.5 hours away from Paris by TGV, will continue to attract the international top researchers and their families to what is becoming also a sophisticated, cosmopolitan community with a highly developed infrastructure for expatriates.
We consider Cadarache France, the ideal candidate to succeed with the ITER project, both for the construction and the exploitation phase.
Why The ITER Project?
(International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor)
ITER is the largest and boldest scientific co-operation project on a world-wide scale. With a cost of around 10 billion dollars, the construction phase will last for 10 years and the exploitation phase for 20 years.
Based on research developed for over 40 years on a world-wide scale, the ITER project is based on controlled fusion, aiming to reproduce on Earth the process that powers our Sun and other stars: thermonuclear fusion.
Its goal will be to produce 500 megawatts of fusion power for 500 seconds or longer during each individual fusion experiment and, in doing so, demonstrate essential technologies for a commercial reactor.
Controlled fusion is a major scientific and technological challenge, which could, in time, provide solutions to the crucial issue of providing new clean long-term energy resources. Unlike fission energy, fusion energy is a source of hope in terms of creating an abundant source of clean energy, with little or no waste, in the 21st century; this at a time when fossil fuel shortages are just 50 years away.
Scientists say it will be the first fusion device to produce thermal energy at the level of a conventional electricity-producing power station. Deuterium and tritium are abundant and cheap fuels - deuterium is extracted from seawater and tritium is made from the common element lithium.
Just 300 litres of seawater provide one gram of deuterium. This means that the water in our oceans alone could meet world energy needs for around a billion years.
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Waterman A M
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WATERMAN DJ
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Peter Gillespie
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- United States
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Kathleen Lambert
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- American
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Caroline CLAVERIE
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- French
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Axel ERWAST
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- French / Swedish
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Philippa Clare
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- British
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RIBEIRO
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- franзaise
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LAFON
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- franзaise
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Denys Laurence
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- Canadian
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Lecreux
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- franзaise
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Remacle
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- French
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John Miller
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- USA
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- Cadarache is far and away the best site available.
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Stephen Foster
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- USA
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- The quality of research already demonstrated at Cadarache clearly shows that it's in America's best interest to support its application.
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Robin Hammond
- Nationality
- British
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Diane and Francis Tierney
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Comments
- The French Government will do everything possible to ensure success, since this involves French prestige as hosts.
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Harry Newton
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- British
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L.J.S.van der Laan
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- Dutch
- Comments
- Cadarache has lots of knowledge/experience
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K.Baart
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- South African
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FERAUD Frederique
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- French
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- "I believe water will one day be employed as a combustible, that hydrogen and oxygen that it is made of will provide a neverending source of heat and light and of such intensity coal could not attend."Jules VERNE 1877
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HELFER Hans R.
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- swiss
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claire Ortoli
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Boyd, Alastair
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- British
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Monique Moullй-Zetterstrцm
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- franзaise
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Andrea Perekovic
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- French
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Yngve Zetterstrom
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- swedish
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Hеkan Zetterstrцm
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- Swedish
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ulf jonsson
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Maurice DUPUIS
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- French
- Comments
- Strongest support
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pougnet
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- Fr
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Emile Simeloff
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- British
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Marie-Christine Simeloff
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- French
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eron oxing
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Guy de Thй M.D.PhD.,
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- Europe is and will remain the best ally of the USA. Japan is a wonderful country, but with a different cultural background and different priorities.
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Annika Dimberg
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- Sweden
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Ubbo Wilkens
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- US
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- Anything which would not harm us ,our environment, save on expenses, and, do away with fossil fuels...t
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Hemsworth
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- british
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ROUTIN
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- French
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- THAT ...is...THE solution
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еke & anita eriksson
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- sweden
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DEROP Jean-Luc
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- French
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roderick & jacqueline macleod
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- british and french
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JLP ASSUR
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- french
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Rodolphe DEGUILHEM
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- French
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Felix Calonder
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- Swiss
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Tony Riordan
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- Irish
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mounier jean-jacques
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- franзaise
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barbey
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- france
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Carolyn Badertscher
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- American
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John Badertscher
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- American
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NOCENTINI Giampaolo
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- Italiana
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