What's striking about that is the investment costs were €370m. That seems like a tiny expense from the perspective of the EU and US budgets. There doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency in funding fusion research.
There's been a lot of funding for fusion research over the past half-century, but politicians in charge of funding have grown weary of "Real soon now" promises.
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