FRANCE-ENERGY-NUCLEAR-ITER

Iter organization's general director Osamu Motojima (R) presents to Guenther Oettinger (L), EU Commissioner for Energy and French minister for Higher Education and Research Genevieve Fioraso (C), the model of the reactor of the future International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) during the inauguration of the Iter Organization headquarters on January 17, 2013 in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, southern France. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter), based at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) research center of Cadarache in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, was set up by the EU, which has a 45 percent share, China, India, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the US to research a clean and limitless alternative to dwindling fossil fuel reserves. AFP PHOTO / GERARD JULIEN (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo by GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)