Sentences with phrase «fusion reactor project»

Last week, it was announced that Europe's contribution to building the ITER fusion reactor project would amount to $ 7.2 billion, 2.7 times the original estimate.

Managers from the ITER fusion reactor project in France held urgent meetings at the European Commission in Brussels today following Wednesday's collapse of the commission's plan for filling a $ 1.4 - billion ITER funding hole in 2013.

* Update, 28 February, 3 p.m.: The executive summary of the report on management of the international ITER fusion reactor project was published today by The New Yorker.

ITER, the international fusion reactor project in France, is reeling from an assessment that found serious problems with the project's leadership, management, and governance.

The leader of a proposed compact fusion reactor project says that Lockheed Martin's decision to lift the lid on its secret effort is an attempt to build a scientific team and find partners.

Cost cutting has been the name of the game for Osamu Motojima since he took the reins of the ITER fusion reactor project, the world's most expensive science experiment, in July.

Funding for fusion in general is extremely tight because of general government budget - cutting and the high cost of the ITER fusion reactor project in France, of which the United States is a partner.

Not exact matches

One of the biggest ongoing projects is ITER in France, an international effort to build the first magnetic fusion reactor that pumps out more energy than it consumes.

And DOE was told not to spend more than $ 115 million on the U.S. contribution to ITER, the international fusion reactor being built in France, until ITER officials present a new schedule for the troubled project.

Hundreds of scientists and engineers at the world's biggest fusion reactor, the Joint European Torus (JET) at Culham near Oxford, will be laid off later this year unless a solution is found to a long - running dispute over the treatment of Britons working on the project.

For more than 18 months the European Union has been trying to find $ 1.3 billion to pay for its 2012 - 13 contribution to the ITER fusion reactor, a $ 16 billion international project now being built in France.

U.S. researchers have been working to master fusion for decades and are partners in ITER, a global project to build a huge fusion reactor in France which is currently under construction.

Even though a supporter of nuclear power, Charpak was one of three signatories to an editorial in the French daily Libération in August that called for a halt to the building of the experimental fusion reactor ITER in the south of France because the cost of the project has running out of control and the plant will be «unusable.»

As the international ITER project to develop an experimental nuclear fusion reactor eats into research budgets around the world, an advisory panel to the US Department of Energy recommends mothballing at least one of three major experiments and focusing on research necessary to bring ITER online.

Last week, defense firm Lockheed Martin revealed a few details on a secret project: building a «compact fusion reactor,» a working reactor about 1/10 the size of current efforts.

Currently, an experimental fusion reactor called ITER is under development in France and is projected to cost $ 20bn by the completion of the experiment.