Like Italy and Japan, Canada has expressed an interest in hosting the
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) being planned by Japan,
Europe, Russia and Canada. “It is not a formal proposal,” says Ernesto Canobbio,
adviser to the European Commission’s fusion programme. He says Canada’s move is
interesting because labour and energy are cheaper there than in the other two
countries. Japan also has a moratorium on big science projects. Canada would
have to pay a quarter of the construction costs if the $3 billion fusion
project ended up there. The US bowed out of ITER two years ago.
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