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RE: [cdn-nucl-l] Iter fusion reactor bid needs more funds?



We could take the same approach we took on Kyoto -- make promises of financial commitments we know we haven't got a snowball's chance in hell of meeting, with the expectation that the other international ITER partners will bail us out once the viability of the project becomes threatened.....
(Boy, I think maybe I should run for Liberal Minister of the Economy, huh ?)
Jaro 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Cuttler [mailto:jerrycuttler@rogers.com]
Sent: Sunday December 29, 2002 9:18 PM
To: cdn-nucl-l (E-mail)
Subject: [cdn-nucl-l] Iter fusion reactor bid needs more funds?

This is a new development.  We always assumed that we could just offer the site and not pick up a huge tab for the construction.
The attractiveness of the site was suppose to be our stake.  Now, it seems, that is not enough.
Would additional government funding for Iter would compete with funding for developing the ACR? 
Building the $12 billion project in Canada would yield economic payback, but the same argument is made for the competing sites.
Darlington was suppose to be the most attractive site.  If it is, then we shouldn't have to contribute very much.
What do you think?
Jerry
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