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by matt7aylor 981 days ago
A big piece of news buried near the bottom of this page is that the UK has withdrawn from ITER, the major international project to develop fusion energy, to which they were previously a major scientific contributor. ITER may well have it's own issues but I think this says plenty more about the lack of joined up thinking demonstrated by the UK government in recent years.
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ksec 980 days ago
> that the UK has withdrawn from ITER, the major international project to develop fusion energy

WTF! Did they pulled out or were they forced out due to Brexit?

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traceroute66 980 days ago
> WTF! Did they pulled out or were they forced out due to Brexit?

UK Gov decided to go it alone instead of associating with Euratom[1].

And Euratom and ITER sort of go hand in hand, so....

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-announces-up-t...

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