France: Countries Agree to Pursue Fusion Energy
Representatives of the United States, the European Union, China, India, Japan, Russia and South Korea signed a $12.8 billion agreement to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor to try to produce safe, clean and inexhaustible energy using the same process that lights the Sun. The project, ITER, for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, will be based in Cadarache, about 40 miles from Marseille, and follows years of talks.
