EUROPEAN COMMISSION PLOTS MORE ITER FUNDING
December 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has drafted a plan ensuring cash-strapped international nuclear fusion project ITER would have funding of Euro EUR2.573 billion from 2014 to 2018. European Union (EU) ministers in December approved emergency spending for ITER to see the France-based research project through 2012 and 2013, and now the Commission is looking ahead for four more years' money.
It has proposed the creation of a 'Supplementary Research Programme', funded via the EU's nuclear energy wing Euratom, which would ensure Europe kept its funding bargain ...
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