POTOCNIK – IAEA
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE INCOMING European Union (EU) Commissioner for research Janez Potocnik has declared he would be prepared to build an ITER-scale fusion reactor at Cadarache, France, if there is no international agreement on where to build the prototype. In answers to a European Parliament questionnaire, he said the EU "could consider launching the construction of the ITER at Cadarache...with those of its partners willing to be involved", although only at the "very last resort". If the EU did take this step, Potocnik hoped that "other partners would join the ...
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