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Published online 26 November 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news041122-17

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Europe threatens to go for fusion alone

EU says it could build a new reactor without Japanese support.

European ministers today agreed to build the $6.1-billion ITER experimental nuclear-fusion reactor with less than all its international partners, if that proves necessary to secure a French site for the project.

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