It's Official? ITER In Cadarache

Or so says the BBC, replete with Luddite quotes:

... some environmental groups are doubtful about the viability of nuclear fusion, and have warned that Cadarache lies on a known earthquake faultline. The management at Cadarache insists there is no risk to existing or future installations.

... because, of course, a breach of the fusion core would release all that deadly helium.

"Governments should not waste our money on a dangerous toy which will never deliver any useful energy. Instead, they should invest in renewable energy which is abundantly available, not in 2080 but today."

And you know this, how?

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More on this from the US DOE (PDF), where Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman said:

Plentiful, reliable energy is critical to continued worldwide economic development. Fusion technologies have the potential to transform how energy is produced and provide significant amounts of safe, environmentally-friendly power in the future. The ITER project will make this vision a reality.

Additional commentary by the USDOE Office of Science (PDF), and the joint declaration of the participants (PDF).