Before that happens, however, a large and complex construction project must be completed and, like most mega-projects, it is over budget and delayed. The project is ITER (the International ...

Construction of the Iter fusion reactor, being built at Cadarache in the south of France, is now 50% complete, the Iter Organisation has announced. The reactor - construction of which began in 2010 - ...

Westinghouse Electric Co. and officials with the ITER project in France signed a contract for $180 million for the assembly of the vacuum vessel for the fusion reactor. This is a key milestone in the ...

French officials with the nation’s nuclear regulatory body have ordered the ITER organization to stop construction of its humongous tokamak reactor while it addresses safety concerns over its assembly ...

The Iter Organization has applied for a construction permit for the demonstration fusion reactor it plans to build in Cadarache, southern France. The Iter Organization has applied for a construction ...

Officials with the ITER project in France said work has started on the assembly of giant components needed for construction of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, a project designed to demonstrate ...

CADARACHE, France (Reuters) - Construction of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor in southern France is in full swing as the cost estimate has ballooned to nearly four times the original estimate, ...

ITER is a large-scale scientific experiment that aims to demonstrate that it is possible to produce commercial energy from fusion. If you haven’t yet heard about the organization, that will likely ...

In 2017, Nextbigfuture said that the ITER tokamak fusion project would cost $45-60 billion more than the claimed $22 billion construction budget and US Department of Energy (DOE) agrees with a far ...

Funding for research in nuclear fusion was fully restored by Congress in the omnibus spending bill, reversing what supporters feared might be declining interest in the research. An executive of ...