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Science 9 October 1998:
Vol. 282. no. 5387, p. 209
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5387.209b
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The U.S. Department of Energy is recalling its fusion scientists from their posts in Germany and Japan, where they have spent the last 3 years working on the moribund International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Congress ended U.S. contributions to the $10 billion project last week (see p. 210), prompting DOE to order more than a dozen scientists back to their home institutions by 16 November. The recall completes a withdrawal begun in July, when it became clear that Congress wouldn't provide enough money to support the 36 U.S. researchers assigned to the project.

The retreat "has created a pretty depressed mood here," says physicist Ron Parker, who will be leaving his post at the ITER site in Garching, Germany, to return to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He calls Congress' decision to pull out "completely destructive. But at some point you have to put disappointment behind you and move on to new challenges."

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