ITER-related research launched in Rokkasho, Aomori

ITER-related research launched in Rokkasho, Aomori

AOMORI, Japan - Toshio Okazaki, president of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, speaking at a news conference in Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture on July 3, after a facility to conduct research related to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor started operations in the village earlier in the day. Japan, the United States, the European Union, Russia, China, South Korea and India agreed in 2006 to build the world's first thermonuclear reactor in France, with Japan building two ITER-related facilities.

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