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.

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The deal signed by ministers on Tuesday puts those negotiations into effect, establishing the international organisation that will implement the Iter fusion energy project.

BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | States sign nuclear energy pact

Spider is a step toward AMD's goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.

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Spider is a step toward AMD's (nyse: AMD - news - people ) goal of putting high-end graphics capabilities on a single slice of silicon with its processors, a project AMD has dubbed Fusion.

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It is NOT a fusion energy project.

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The Open Compute Project storage page also references Fusion-IO PCIe storage cards with up to 3.2 TB of storage capacity, which are used by Facebook to speed up overall storage system performance.

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After the Soviet Union broke America's atomic monopoly in 1949, several prominent scientists and politicians favoured the development of the hydrogen bomb, a fusion weapon hundreds of times more powerful than the bombs that the Manhattan Project had built.

ECONOMIST: Robert Oppenheimer

This project, a collaboration between America, Russia, Japan and Europe, is intended to create sustained nuclear fusion by squeezing gases so hard that their atomic nuclei fuse together and give off more energy than was needed to squeeze them.

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