Political News – Kerry Urges Funding for At-Risk MIT Research Facility
Political News – Kerry Urges Funding for At-Risk MIT Research Facility
04 March 2012
Washington, DC – U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-MA) is asking the leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee to replace funding for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) fusion energy research program. The program is set to lose funding as a result of a proposed 16 percent cut to domestic fusion research in President Obama’s FY 2013 budget. If this proposed cut is enacted into law, the C-Mod research facility at MIT will be abruptly terminated and 130 fusion scientists, engineers, graduate students, and support personnel would be terminated.
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