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Nuclear Fusion / Germany Says ‘Race Is On’ As Minister Announces Funding Programme For First Reactor By 2040

By David Dalton
15 March 2024

Berlin aiming to invest more than €1bn in research over the next five years

Germany Says ‘Race Is On’ As Minister Announces Funding Programme For First Reactor By 2040
Federal research minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger presents the new funding programme ‘Fusion 2040 – Research on the way to a fusion power plant’. Courtesy BMBF/Hans-Joachim Rickel.
Announcement comes less than one year after country shut down its last commercial nuclear fission plants‘We must not miss this huge opportunity,’ says minister

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