For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 30, 2003
ITER: International Research Project Statement
Statement by the President
I am pleased to announce that the United States will join ITER, an
ambitious international research project to harness the promise of
fusion energy. The results of ITER will advance the effort to produce
clean, safe, renewable, and commercially-available fusion energy by the
middle of this century. Commercialization of fusion has the potential
to dramatically improve America's energy security while significantly
reducing air pollution and emissions of greenhouse gases.
The United States will be working with the United Kingdom, other
European Union nations, Russia, China, Japan and Canada on the creation
of ITER. Today, I am directing the Secretary of Energy to represent
the United States at the upcoming ITER meetings in St. Petersburg,
Russia. We welcome the opportunity to work with our partners to make
fusion energy a reality.
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