Sun could shine on ferry trip to France

13.10.2009
People taking ferry trips to France may soon be able to visit a facility which has been created in order to emulate the power of the sun.

Science fans on holidays to France may want to travel to the south of the country where the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is currently being constructed and will be completed in 2018.

New Scientist stated: "The balmy south of France has always been a magnet for sun worshippers. So it is perhaps fitting that here, not far from the Cote d"Azur, an international team of researchers is building a machine to recreate the sun."

When the facility is completed it will fuse together two heavy isotopes of hydrogen to release vast quantities of energy, which may amaze those taking cross channel ferries.

Fans of science may also want to travel to France to see some recently-discovered dinosaur footprints that were made more than 150 million years ago in the Jura plateau near Lille.

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