Instead the UK will institute its own programme focussing on nuclear fusion - the science of trying to extract energy by forcing together light atomic nuclei.
It will involve international collaborations. After all, the UK still hosts Europe’s leading fusion lab - the Joint European Torus (Jet) in Oxfordshire.
The alternative programme will be backed by £650m up to 2027, the UK government says.
Hmm.
It’s not clear to me if the UK is still in ITER, then.
EDIT: Nothing on the UKAEA site that I can find explaining, either.
The ITER WP page saying that the UK participates references an old page from 2021 saying that ITER had suspended new contracts with the UK but was honoring old ones and that the governments hoped to work things out at some point.
Hmm.
It’s not clear to me if the UK is still in ITER, then.
EDIT: Nothing on the UKAEA site that I can find explaining, either.
The ITER WP page saying that the UK participates references an old page from 2021 saying that ITER had suspended new contracts with the UK but was honoring old ones and that the governments hoped to work things out at some point.