PRI – Proposed budget cuts domestic funding for fusion research, may delay ‘energy of the future’
Public Radio International – Proposed budget cuts domestic funding for fusion research, may delay ‘energy of the future’
26 March 2012 – 10:10
President Obama’s proposed budget for the 2013 fiscal year would cut funding for domestic fusion research in order to fund ITER, a multi-national fusion research project in France. That could mean lost jobs and a more limited market for physicists at research facilities like the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Nuclear fusion is often referred to as the “energy of the future,” but proposed budget cuts in the 2013 fiscal year, which will start in October, threaten to delay the energy future.
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