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07.09.12 ITER Signs Fusion Cooperation Agreement With China

Friday, 07 September 2012 08:12

5 Sep (NucNet): The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Organisation and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) have signed an agreement aiming to promote scientific and technological cooperation between the network of laboratories and institutes engaged in fusion research.

ITER director-general Osamu Motojima signed the agreement during a recent visit to Beijing, ITER said.

China is one of the seven founding members of ITER and MOST is “steering the country's national scientific and technological development”, a statement said.

The agreement, which ITER said will make use of a global network of laboratories,

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