EU could go it alone on nuclear fusion plant

The EU will go ahead with locating the International Themonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in France if no agreement can be reached with Japan by the end of the year over where to build the plant, according to EU research ministers.

Talks over the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor have stalled because Japan and France are fighting over the right to house the plant.

The EU together with Russia and China want the 10 billion dollar (7.5 bn euro) plant in Cadarache, near Marse...