News from Cadarache, France, home of the ITER project’s experimental nuclear fusion reactor, seems promising. After two years of constant delays, rocketing cost estimations and technical difficulties, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - ITER, an international project to build a prototype nuclear fusion reactor in southern France, said it is facing delays if the Trump administration does not reconsider budget cuts.

Officials with the ITER project in France said work has started on the assembly of giant components needed for construction of an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, a project designed to demonstrate ...

An updated schedule for the Iter fusion project has been approved by the Iter Council, which represents the countries taking part in the project. Under the new schedule, first plasma is now slated for ...

What if scientists could harness the extraordinarily powerful process that fuels the sun to generate clean energy here on Earth? In a potentially historic milestone, they are taking a step towards ...

PARIS (Reuters) – The United States has agreed to double its planned 2018 budget contribution to the ITER project to build a prototype nuclear fusion reactor, avoiding delays to the international ...

PARIS (Reuters) - The international ITER project to build a prototype nuclear fusion reactor will be delayed by more than a decade and faces another 4 billion euros of cost overruns, its director told ...

General Atomics is about to ship the first piece of a crucial component of an ambitious and expensive international nuclear fusion project under construction in France. In segments, the San ...

The expected cost of ITER has risen from $5 billion USD to $20 billion USD, and the timeline for operation at full power was moved from the original estimate of 2016 to 2027. However, the schedule for ...

After nearly five years of fabrication and testing, one of the first pieces of an incredibly powerful magnet built by General Atomics has been completed and will be shipped to Europe in the coming ...

- First private Japanese company to have a Long Term Non-Commercial Cooperation Agreement with the ITER Organization - TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Corporation (NTT, President & CEO: Jun Sawada) ...