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The world's most advanced nuclear fusion reactor has got a green signal from top representatives of 30 countries and will hopefully, soon dilute global fuel crisis. The $12.8 billion deal has paved the path for a new era, revolutionizing human's perception towards depleting fossil fuels and global energy use altogether. Apparently, this was imminent, with nuclear energy being the last viable option left to develop cheap and abundant energy as fossil fuels are breathing their last.
Negotiations were in progress from years for the project and finally on Tuesday representatives of the European Union, the United States, Russia, South Korea, Japan, India, and China signed the ITER agreement.
French President Chirac said:
If nothing changes, humanity will have consumed, in 200 years, most of the fossil fuel resources accumulated over hundreds of millions of years. The growing shortage of resources and the battle against global warming demand a revolution in our ways of production and consumption. It is the victory of the general interest of humanity.
What the ITER reactor can offer?
The 10 billion euro ($12.8 billion) International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) will be built at Cadarache, near the southern city of Marseille, France. The ITER reactor will mimic the nuclear process of the Sun and turn seawater into fuel. Moreover, the reactor will take on the challenge of creating harmful waste by most of the existing reactors by churning out clean energy and is more powerful too.
As per critics, it's an hypothetical idea as it would take over 50 years to built it, however, we believe that it must have been done long back and anyway, now it's here and without doubt gives us many reason to welcome the possible green future full of infinite energy:
1. The reactor will directly help combat global warming by eradicating harmful gases emitted by fossil fuels.
2. It will cater to about 10%-20% of the world's energy needs.
3. It's clean owing to the fusion reaction used to produce energy, rather than fission.
4. It's more powerful than most of the present reactors.
5. Churns out safe and limitless energy.
6. The project will create around 10,000 jobs and will provide abundant opportunities to scientists to further research on ways to trap nuclear energy safely.
Despite the fact that the project is too costly, would take a lot of time when it would actually start it's production, and might produce radioactive wastes to some extent, still it's the final hope for us for a green future. What do you say?
Via: CNN
