New Report Published: The ITER Power Amplification Myth

New Report Published: The ITER Power Amplification Myth

Dear Ms. Kearney,

More than $20 billion will be spent on the ITER fusion reactor, now under construction in southern France. The ITER reactor has been publicized to give the impression that it will produce 10 times the power it will consume. It will do no such thing. The reactor is designed to produce only 1.6 times more thermal power than it consumes in electric power. With a more conservative calculation, the reactor will lose more power than it produces.

Three independent sources have confirmed the power values:

1. Daniel Jassby, former principal research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
2. Hartmut Zohm, head of the Tokamak Scenario Development Division at the Max-Planck-Institute of Plasma Physics.
3. Steven Cowley, chief executive officer of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

My third report in this series, "The ITER Power Amplification Myth,"  is now available on the New Energy Times news site.

Thank you,
Steven

Steven B. Krivit began his science journalism career focusing on low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) in 2000. He initially reported on the work of credentialed scientists who claimed that they had experimental evidence of "cold fusion." However, by 2008, Krivit had identified eight experimental facts that disproved their "cold fusion" hypothesis. Since then, Krivit has published extensively, in encyclopedias and peer-reviewed journals, about the distinction between the erroneous idea of "cold fusion" and the valid science of LENRs. His distinction was adopted by the Library of Congress in 2016 for its authoritative subject heading index. Krivit’s latest article on LENR was published by Scientific American on Dec. 7, 2016.