NUCLEAR FUSION:
Europe, Japan Finalizing Reduced ITER Design
Judy Redfearn
MUNICH, GERMANY--European and Japanese fusion researchers have drawn up what they hope will be a winning design for a scaled-down version of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Last week ITER scientists described key elements of the smaller and cheaper design at a seminar here for policy-makers, industrialists, and journalists. Details will be revealed next month, in time to influence political decisions to be made starting next summer in Europe and Japan, the two major ITER partners.