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"How and to what extent should ITER be financed? The subject has now become a recurrent item on the agenda of the European Parliament. It has been raised once again at a time when we are being asked to vote on the 2012 budget. While the cost of the project has increased exponentially since it was launched in 2006, from EUR 6 to 16 billion, I think it must now continue with the available resources. Not one euro more should be added to ITER. I therefore voted for the amendments against increasing expenditure for ITER. Unfortunately, however, they were not adopted for want of a majority. While research – into both fusion and fission – is a good thing (albeit diversified), I deeply regret the increase in appropriations (EUR 700 000 for 2012) as well as the anticipated financial tinkering, which would lead to part of the European research budget being emptied simply to finance ITER. Not to mention the fact that budget cuts are planned in this area, creating more imbalance between research spending on nuclear energy and renewable energy. It is, however, essential to re–establish the balance between the two, especially in France, where almost 80% of the research budget is still devoted to nuclear energy."@en1
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