Uncontrolled Fusion ITER

Untitled Document

The incredible report on the pitiful public debate of 2006

Revelation of the incompetence of people from CEA

and of the members of RFM present

To download this report, which cost 7 million euros

Read the absurdities, in the form of answers to questions asked by the audience, provided by Michel Châtelier, director of the Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research (Cadarache) and by Gabriel Marbach, his deputy, who has now taken over the leadership of this institute. The page numbers are mentioned in the two letters I sent to Bernard Bigot:

First letter to Bernard Bigot, General Administrator of CEA, August 25, 2011

[Second letter, August 26, 2011](/legacy/find/astro-ph,gr-qc,hep-ph,hep-th/1/riazuelo/0/1/0/all/3//NUCLEAIRE/ITER/Bernard_Bigot 26_8_2011.pdf)

His September 2011 response

As a complement, the content of an email that Philippe Ghendrih, research director at this institute, very influential at CNRS, sent me on October 20, 2011:

After this email, I quickly found on the internet the phone number of Philippe Ghendrih. I called him immediately, starting by telling him that I was no longer active at CNRS, but retired. Then we had a 50-minute discussion on theoretical points related to tokamaks. Regarding the budget related to the construction of this machine, he said to me, "you know how much a day of war in Afghanistan, in Iraq costs?"

That is a point of view....

Our conversation did not, however, take a confrontational turn at any point. At least, that was my personal impression. Read his own version in the following email. As he is a numerical analyst, I questioned him extensively on what could be achieved in terms of simulation to try to describe the operation of tokamaks, without getting a very convincing answer. Regarding the thermal collapse, in a thousandth of a second, which is the first phase of disruptions, his answer was "because the machine became unstable", an answer that seemed to fully satisfy him.

Here is the answer he then gave to journalist Jean Robin, who proposed to film a debate between him and me, which would then be broadcast online:

| ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- | From | : GHENDRIH Philippe 103440 Philippe.GHENDRIH@cea.fr | Date | : October 21, 2011 09:24 | Subject | : RE: proposal for a filmed debate | To | : Jean Robin - Inquiry and Debate jean@enquete-debat.fr | Sir, | I listened to Mr. Petit yesterday for a long time, I also consulted his career and his scientific production which are very poor, even shocking. | Mr. Petit shows a great talent for manipulation without any respect for the people he uses to satisfy his ego. | I am a scientist who develops a research program, not a public relations person, still less a psychiatrist capable of helping someone like Mr. Petit in his delirium. I also draw your attention to two points: | 1) Mr. Petit is completely incompetent in all areas of magnetic fusion where he gives opinions. His source of information is very fragmented, non-existent in terms of scientific standards, and he does not cite any scientific publication in major international journals. There is not the slightest scientific element in his method or his approach, let alone in the opinions he gives. | 2) Mr. Petit engages in personal attacks which are completely irrelevant for an approach that claims to be scientific. On the contrary, it is defamation, which could fall under the law. His statements contain a mixture of frustration, delirium, incompetence, and resentment towards people, rather than any real interest in the ITER project. | Therefore, I refuse to participate in such a debate. Not only does it have nothing to do with my scientific and professional approach, but it would also give senseless prominence to a person who has completely failed to have a significant scientific career and who, at the time of his retirement, certainly needs psychiatric assistance more than media publicity. |
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Regarding the Z-machine, as he had told me "he had heard of it", I sent him an email offering to give a seminar at the IRFM, the laboratory to which he belongs (Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research, located in Cadarache). He did not have the courtesy to respond to me.

Mr. Philippe Ghendrih is used to not signing his emails.

If we take literally his strongly negative opinion about me, after reading Wurden's communication at the Princeton conference, USA, in September 2011, which says exactly the same things as me (translation of this communication into French), we must conclude that he should also be reserved a place in a psychiatric hospital.

If you refer to the pdfs accessible via the links at the top of this page, you will see, by going through the report on the 2006 public debate, that Mr. Chatelier, who was director of the IRM at the time, introduced a new concept, that of "intense plasma". The expression that Mr. Bigot qualifies as a "transcription error". It should have read "dense plasma" (?....).

In the same document, Gabriel Marbach, current director of this institute, explains that the resistance of the materials with which ITER will be built has been tested on the English machine JET, which provides test durations not exceeding one second.

Finally, Alain Becoulet, current deputy director of the IRM, called Jean Robin on the phone for a long time to explain that my scientific level was that of a high school senior, while informing him, like all the others, of his categorical refusal of a filmed debate with me.

Hide these disruptions, I would not know ...