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Nature 415, 245 (17 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415245b

Welcome back to the fusion fold?

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The United States should rejoin the ITER project, whose management must communicate better with politicians and public.

Governments and scientists worldwide will welcome indications that the United States is once again considering participation in ITER, the international project to build an experimental magnetic-confinement fusion reactor (see page 247).If the United States does rejoin the project, it will send important political signals to the nation's allies, who are concerned about the unilateralist leanings of George W.