Fusion for Energy
The European Union's Joint Undertaking for ITER and the Development of Fusion Energy or Fusion for Energy (F4E) is a European Union (EU) organisation known as a Joint Undertaking created under the Euratom Treaty by decision of the Council of the European Union. Its headquarters are in Barcelona, in Spain, and it is responsible for the EU's contributions to the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in Cadarache, France) project. As a joint undertaking, its governing board is made up of the European Commission, representing Euratom, all the Member States of the European Union and Switzerland, which has research programmes associated to Euratom. As of February 2010, the director of the Fusion for Energy agency is Frank Briscoe.
See also
External links
- Fusion for Energy, the agency's home page.
- Fusion for Energy: Understanding Fusion
- Euratom/fusion, the Fusion page of the EURATOM