Oxford Times – Fusion energy project jobs ‘in balance’
Oxford Times – Fusion energy project jobs ‘in balance’
By Liam Sloan | 15 December 2011 – 13:00
HUNDREDS of scientists’ jobs at Culham Centre of Fusion Energy are hanging in the balance unless a new funding deal for 2012 is reached in the coming days.
Funding for the Joint European Torus (JET) nuclear fusion project runs out on December 31, but European Union officials have yet to sign off future funding.
Four hundred permanent Oxfordshire staff work at JET, with hundreds of other European scientists visiting on secondment.
A settlement covering the next two years has been delayed by a year-long wrangle over finding an extra €1.3bn (£1.09bn) for JET’s successor, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), being built in Cadarache, France.
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