Tag: ITER

Italians decidedly rejected nuclear power in a referendum last year, but that does not mean abandoning the study and research on atomic energy, Environment Minister Corrado Clini said in an interview with EurActiv Italy.

EU nuclear fusion project ITER should be abandoned because it is set to be built in an earthquake zone, like the stricken Fukushima plant in Japan, MEPs will argue today (20 April) as last-chance proposals for the project to pay off a €1.3 billion funding shortfall are tabled for discussion.

With EU governments unwilling to fill the funding gaps in the multi-billion international nuclear fusion research project ITER, the European Commission is proposing to put an extra 1.4 billion euro on the table to honour the bloc's international commitment.  

The world's most expensive science experiment, the ITER project, aims to produce energy the way sun does, via fusion.

The Parliament's Greens/EFA group says that the current FP7 is biased towards the promotion of forms of energy that have no future and is calling for common sense and democratic debate on the allocation of the EU's energy research funds.

The quest to find a cheap and inexhaustible way to meet global energy needs was given a boost when a 30-nation consortium chose France to host the world's first nuclear fusion reactor. Opinions remain divided over whether nuclear fusion is safe and economically viable as a sustainable source of energy production.  

Japan has denied making a decision on conceding the ITER nuclear reactor project to France. The final word from Tokyo is expected by this summer.

The Competitiveness Council has given a new mandate to the Commission to pursue an agreement on the location of the thermonuclear reactor by making Japan a 'special partner'.

On 26 November, the Competitiveness Council chose Cadarache (France) as the EU candidate site for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).