Fusion plant to be built in Iran
Posted: 26 July 2010 12:17 AM   [ Ignore ]
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Here is a link to an article about a proposed Iranian fusion program:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/07/24/iran.nuclear.fusion/index.html

Do you think they are planing to use Aneutronic Fusion?

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Posted: 26 July 2010 02:18 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]
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I think it is as credible as north Korean announcement and similar to their space program. Hopefully i am wrong…

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Posted: 26 July 2010 06:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]
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No, it’s the same thing Rezwan posted here: http://focusfusion.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/581/

The translation of Rezwan’s link is here:
http://translate.google.de/translate?hl=en&sl=fa&tl=en&u=http://www.aeoi.org.ir/Portal/Home/ShowPage.aspx?Object=News&ID=63c83142-cc83-4dda-9d92-2c4cf25cf594&LayoutID=176788bb-047d-4dbd-9aff-db1217020e99&CategoryID=abb810e6-37fa-47b2-821b-8eae0c8c1f8c

Sdyqzadh added: “Since the formation of the Atomic Energy Organization, started research in fusion and fusion in the lab is equipped with a 5 thousand square meters of space is allocated to large research agencies and Damavand COLD Tvkamk the first built by Iranian experts and the latter has been purchased from Russia, with high similarity scores to the international design system “Eater” is. Other research agencies such as plasma device Focal Fylypvf the Institute there for nuclear fusion studies are used.

So they bought a tokamak from Russia and build DPFs themselves. More details are in Rezwan’s post.

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