ITER GETS EU FUNDING FOR 2012 AND 2013
July 1st, 2011 BY KEITH NUTHALL THE INTERNATIONAL Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project will receive European Union (EU) funding for at least two more years, with EU ministers approving Euro EUR2.2 billion in spending for 2012 and 2013 in total. This money will be funneled through the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) framework programme for nuclear research. ITER's financing appears to have been helped by a procedural quirk. The main EU framework programme for research (which excludes nuclear) has authorisation until December 2013, but its sister Euratom ...
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