The European Union has chosen France as its candidate to build the world’s first large-scale nuclear fusion reactor. EU ministers want the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) built near the southern French town of Cadarache. Japan and Canada are competing with France for the plant. EU officials and delegates from Russia, Japan, China, South Korea, Canada and the United States, co-sponsors of the project, are expected to make a final decision in December. Iter is expected to cost more than USD 5 billion and will attempt to create a renewable, non-polluting form of energy. The project is slated for completion by 2014.
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