Date published: 2005/03/08
The BBC says:
Europe has made it clear it will not wait beyond June to reach international agreement on where to site Iter, the experimental nuclear fusion reactor.
EU ministers said on Monday they wanted the matter resolved before the current Luxembourg presidency ends.
Europe believes Iter should be built at Cadarache in France, but other project members are backing Rokkasho in Japan.
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After the International Space Station, it would be the largest global research and development collaboration.But the six international partners - the EU, Russia, China, the US, Japan and South Korea - are deadlocked on a location decision.
The only reason this is still being discussed is because the Americans decided to back Japan out of spite against France over the Iraq war. Europe, Russia and China should tell the others to get lost and get on with it. It wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing to have two sites in any case.
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