A six-party consortium has chosen France as the site for an experimental nuclear fusion reactor, a spokeswoman for the European Union has said. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor is funded by a consortium comprised of Japan, the USA, South Korea, Russia, China and the European Union, but the six parties had been divided over where to put the test reactor. Japan, the USA and South Korea wanted the facility built at Rokkasho in northern Japan. Russia, China and the European Union wanted it at Cadarache, in southern France. Antonia Mochan, spokeswoman for the European Commission’s science and research committee, said the decision was made in Moscow at a closed-door meeting of the consortium. The EU site in France had been seen as the front-runner, and Japanese newspaper reports had said Tokyo was prepared to give up hosting the USD 13 billion ITER project in return for a bigger research and operations role in the project. Some scientists have warned that both sites are in seismically active zones and could be prone to earth tremors.
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