FPN05-22

Quotables

February 21, 2005

"Cheap hydrogen creates a mass market, but a mass market is required to create the incentives to develop cheap hydrogen production techniques."

- Charles W. Forsberg, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Nuclear News, January 2005

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"Programmes to harness the potential of nuclear fusion for electrical power production are being pursued by about fifty countries. ... The physics basis of controlled thermonuclear fusion has been established. The remaining scientific, technological and economic issues are now being addressed to make fusion power a viable energy option."

- Werner Burkart, Deputy Director General, IAEA, at Twentieth IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, 1-6 November, 2004