EU ups the pressure to host world's first nuclear fusion reactor

Time is running short for a decision on where to build the world's first nuclear fusion reactor.

Following a meeting in Brussels on Monday, EU ministers signalled that they want a decision on where to build the world's first nuclear fusion reactor before the end of Luxembourg’s EU presidency in June.

The ITER Project (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), is set to begin in 2005, but consensus among the six parties involved (EU, USA, Japan, Russia, China, South Korea...