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Science 3 May 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5569, p. 823
DOI: 10.1126/science.296.5569.823b
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Spain has become the latest country to enter the competition to host the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a $4 billion fusion energy project. Spain last week presented its candidate site at a Moscow meeting of the ITER partners. Spain's entry is expected to compete against offers from Canada, France, Japan, and Russia (Science, 22 June 2001, p. 2240).

Spain would build ITER on the site of a shuttered nuclear power plant in Vandellós, near Barcelona. Ministry of Science officials tout the site's accessibility and seismic stability. Whether those assets will give Spain an edge, however, won't be known until this summer, when European Union officials decide whether to forward one or both of the continent's entries to a final competition. The ITER parties are expected to select a winning site by the end of the year.

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