China Will Spend $1.4 Billion on Nuclear Fusion at ITER
China will spend $1.4 billion on international research into nuclear fusion.
About 70% of China's electricity is supplied by coal-burning power stations.
The country will pay about 10% of the costs for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) nuclear fusion project, which will be based in France.
The goal – "to find a shortcut to solve our energy shortage.''
A team of experts, some from Japan, will attempt within the next 30 years to fuese atoms to produce energy instead of split them.
Supporters say that if they are successful, huge amounts of energy will be the result with no or little radioactive waster.
Detractors say that to achieve nuclear fusion, a reactor capable of containing gases as hot as the center of the sun are needed.
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