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Science 20 September 2002:
Vol. 297. no. 5589, p. 1977
DOI: 10.1126/science.297.5589.1977a

News of the Week

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.

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