Iran Officially Starts Studies on N. Fusion
Farsnews
24-Jul-2010 (2 comments)


TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran on Saturday officially announced the launch
of a national project for nuclear fusion.

The study phase of the project was initiated in a special ceremony
held at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) here in Tehran
today.

The organization also started the training course of the recruited
personnel.

The AEOI had previously invited scientists and elites in relevant
fields to join the effort for the construction of the first indigenous
nuclear fusion reactor and power plant.

Head of the AEOI Ali Akbar Salehi had earlier said that
implementation of the plan would enable the country to generate
electricity through nuclear fusion within the next two decades.

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, nuclear fusion is the
process by which multiple atomic nuclei join together to form a single
heavier nucleus.

It is accompanied by the release or absorption of large quantities
of energy. Large scale fusion processes, involving many atoms fusing at
once, must occur in matter at very high densities.

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khaleh mosheh

I hear

by khaleh mosheh on Sat Jul 24, 2010 03:14 PM PDT

our top scientist Professor Dr Sharam Amiri is going to crack this one as per fatwa from our beloved Ayatoshah Khamenei.


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Iran studies building nuclear fusion reactor

by IranMilitaryForum.net on Sat Jul 24, 2010 10:01 AM PDT

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's nuclear agency began studies Saturday to build
an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, something that has yet to be
achieved by any nation.

Iran is not known to have carried out anything but
basic fusion research, but it does have a nuclear fission program that
the U.S. and its allies believe is a front to build weapons — a charge
Tehran denies.

Nuclear fusion, the process powering the sun and
stars, has so far only been mastered as a weapon, producing the
thermonuclear explosions of hydrogen bombs. It has never been harnessed
for power generation.

Vice President Ali Akbar Salehi, who also heads the
Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, told a conference on the new
research program that his agency has set an initial budget of $8 million
to conduct "serious" research in the area of nuclear fusion.

Asghar Sediqzadeh, the head of the new fusion
research center said Iran will take two years to complete these studies
and then another decade to design and build a reactor.

"The scientific phase of the project effectively
began today. We have already hired 50 experts for this purpose," he told
state TV.

The United States, the European Union, China, India,
Russia, Japan and South Korea signed an accord in 2006 to build a $12.8
billion experimental fusion reactor at Cadarache, southern France, aimed
at revolutionizing global energy use for future generations.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor,
or ITER, members have said no single country can afford the immense
investment needed to move the science forward.

Salehi, Iran's nuclear chief, said Iran was willing to
join any international grouping to offer its expertise to promote the
project. However, he said Iran will go its own way should the world not
welcome it.

"We are ready to enter into cooperation with any
international group or country," he told the semiofficial ISNA news
agency.

Salehi said it would take 20 to 30 years before
nuclear fusion energy can be commercialized but that Iran seeks to make
use of all the capacity inside Iran to speed up its research.

The U.N. Security Council has already passed four
sets of sanctions over Iran's nuclear program on suspicions it is being
used to produce weapons. Iran denies the accusations, saying its program
is geared merely toward generating electricity.

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