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Iter / New Schedule For ‘Robust’ Startup Will Allow Project To Make Up For Delays

By David Dalton
8 July 2024

Head of €20 billion nuclear fusion programme says operations will now begin with ‘a more complete machine’

New Schedule For ‘Robust’ Startup Will Allow Project To Make Up For Delays
The €20 billion Iter nuclear fusion project is under construction in southern France. Courtesy Iter.
The €20bn ($21.4bn) International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) nuclear fusion project in southern France is now aiming for “a robust” reactor startup that will allow the project to make up for some of the delays it has accumulated and also provide for better risk mitigation, director-general Pietro Barabaschi told a press conference.

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