Good News For US Fusion Research

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 27, 2012 @05:40AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

zrbyte writes "Fusion research would get a major boost in a Department of Energy (DOE) spending bill approved today by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations. The panel rejected an Obama Administration proposal to cut funding for domestic fusion research in the 2013 fiscal year, which begins 1 October. It would also give more money than requested to an international collaboration building the ITER fusion reactor in France. This will allow the Alcator C-Mod fusion facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge to be kept open, which the Administration had proposed closing."

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There must be some way... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-27 05:41 · Score: 0, Funny

...to make this negative, and blame it on Bush.
It's just 50 years away now! by crazyjj · 2012-04-27 05:53 · Score: 3, Funny

That means in 10 years, it will be just forty years away, right?

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Everything is already running on fusion.... by Petron · 2012-04-27 05:55 · Score: 5, Funny

A day without fusion is like a day without sunshine!

I gatta get me this shirt (on thinkgeek)...

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