ITER Organization Concedes Reactor Is Not Designed for Net Power Production
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The included screenshots from the ITER website don't claim what he says they are claiming. And note that he carefully avoids pointing out that in the same screenshots there are phrases that explicitly say that ITER won't be used to produce power. A simple visit to Wikipedia[1] should have been enough to understand this.
Sure, a naive reader may fail to grasp what the "50MW in, 500 MW out" claim refers to... but I would also argue such a naive reader is probably not interested in the inner workings of nuclear experiments. That's why for such readers it's always spelled out that the experimental reactor won't actually produce electric power.
Frankly speaking, this article seems a blatant attempt to gaslight readers that may not be familiar with what an experimental reactor is supposed to be, or how it's supposed to work.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER#:~:text=As%20a%20research....
E.g. CNBC:
> ITER, a $22 billion dollar international megaproject in the south of France, is the best-funded fusion endeavor, paid for by the governments of its seven member nations. It hopes to be the first to demonstrate the viability of fusion by generating more energy than it consumes.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/the-22-billion-iter-megaproj...
NewScientist:
> ITER will be the largest fusion reactor yet once it is complete, with 2025 the current end goal. Engineers working on the project aim to make it the first reactor that will provide more energy from fuel than is required to sustain the fusion reaction – the plan is to create 500 megawatts of usable energy from an input of 50 megawatts.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2280763-worlds-most-pow...
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This is a crackpot website by right wing nutjob who is totally unqualified and just wants to sell you his insane books about some sort of massive conspiracy among scientists to waste time on fusion instead of his obsession, low-energy nuclear reactions. Because, yes, that's what scientists are working toward, a conspiracy to do nothing.
Krivit is a charlatan plain and simple. Even his bio is absurd, it says he's a "recognized subject-matter expert on Low-Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) research". He has a BA in some sort of administration field, nothing to do with science.
This would be funny if Krivit didn't clearly have a mental illness and strong ties to the Heartland institute. I hope ITER has good security.
- high level nuclear fusion engineering performance curves / the engineering design contraint space
- the current state of nuclear fusion research (as of 5 years ago) and
- breaks down why some new smaller reactors will likely begin construction soon and counter-intuitively, the most recently started ones may be completed before ITER