Although nowhere near the size of ITER, the Wendelstein 7-X is still a substantial machine.
Work to clear a wooded area for the Iter buildings will begin in the spring.
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After the signature ceremony, the first meeting of the Interim Iter Council will take place.
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This technique will be used in the 10bn-euro Iter reactor currently being built in Cadarache, southern France.
We thus need to pursue fusion to the reactor scale through constructing Iter to see whether and to what extent it can contribute.
The deal signed by ministers on Tuesday puts those negotiations into effect, establishing the international organisation that will implement the Iter fusion energy project.
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Professor Llewellyn-Smith is currently Chairman of the ITER Council and the Consultative Committee for Euratom on Fusion, and is also a former Director-General of CERN.
The green lobby is opposed to the Iter project.
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MEPs and the EU governments, which are collectively called the Council, have not yet agreed on a contingency fund to deal with emergencies, nor on financing of the Iter nuclear fusion project.
The Joint European Torus (JET) is located in Britain, which is the largest such facility in the world and may be regarded as a prototype for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) based in France.
An energy source that can make an impact on that market, even at a few percent, has an annual market of tens of billions of dollars, several times the lifetime cost of the Iter experiment.
If talks remain at an impasse, the budget will remain frozen at current levels, something that many MEPs say could call into question future funding for organisations such as the External Action Service and the ITER nuclear reactor.
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