UK mulls associate membership of ITER fusion project after ditching full participation

After deciding last week to rejoin the EU’s flagship R&D programme, the UK government is now considering what to do about the related fusion-energy project, ITER. But Russia will have to sign off any new form of formal relationship, making the UK’s involvement a key test of whether ITER can continue to rise above geopolitical tensions as it has for nearly four decades.

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