FUSION RESEARCH:
Energy Panel Asks U.S. to Rejoin ITER
Charles Seife
GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND--A panel of fusion scientists meeting here last week recommended that the United States rejoin negotiations to build the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a multibillion-dollar international project that the Americans abandoned in 1998. But they also argued that the country should initiate its own fusion experiment if the government lacks the budgetary will to return to the ITER fold.