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Howdy Crunchers,

I figure some of you may find this editorial interesting.

A brief excerpt from the BBC editorial / letter on bbc.co.uk :

After decades of research in laboratories all over the world, a consortium of countries representing over half the world's population is now poised to take a major step forward in proving whether fusion power can become a reality.
On 21 November ministers from Europe, Japan, the People's Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America meet in Paris to sign an agreement to construct an international experiment on the scale of a fusion power plant - Iter (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor; "the way" in Latin) in the South of France.

I figure many of you watch, read or listen to BBC/credible news outlets (who doesn't love the BBC, or commons's question time for that matter?), but some may not have been aware of this; thus, i bring this to your attention with the hope that someone enjoys it and looks for updates. (It seems appropriate because it, at least in my mind, has tenuous ties to the type of goals/research most here would probably be interested in.)

best regards,
Mike Molzahn

Postscript: if this has been mentioned here, or if CERN's website talks about this, i'm sorry for restating something already discussed.

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thanks M, good link

R~~

Thanks river,

BBC World Service and CNN just announced they agreed as i was writing a paper on this for 'Ethics (of) and the Environment in Literature'; now i have to rewrite some of the speculation parts lol... :)

Follow up link on agreement

Mike
Postscript: Good call on Leiden by the way, just attached it last night, thanks for the heads up.

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