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Nature 436, 318-320 (21 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436318a; Published online 20 July 2005
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Fusion energy: Just around the corner
Geoff Brumfiel1
- Geoff Brumfiel is Nature's Washington physical sciences correspondent.
Abstract
For 50 years, physicists have been promising that power from nuclear fusion is imminent. Now they are poised to build an experiment that could vindicate their views. But will the machine work? Geoff Brumfiel investigates.
When word came last month that a site had finally been chosen for the international fusion experiment ITER, Gerald Navratil summed up his feelings in a single word: "relief". Navratil, a plasma physicist at Columbia University in New York and a member of the US ITER team, had spent the past 18 months on the sidelines, watching helplessly as France and Japan fought over which of them would host the machine.
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