【英国《独立报》1991年2月13日报道】据Michael wise报道,来自欧洲共同体、美国、日本和苏联的谈判人员就达成一项联合建造一座价值10亿美元的实验聚变反应堆的协议进行的谈判,取得了进展,他们希望该堆能提供用之不尽的替代能源。但是在维也纳国际原子能机构进行两天会谈后,代表们决定1991年4月18日在东京会晤,然后再最后确定关于该项目,即国际热核实验堆的工程设计的协议。 [British “Independence” reported on February 13, 1991] According to Michael wise, negotiators from the European Community, the United States, Japan, and the Soviet Union have reached an agreement to jointly build a $1 billion experimental fusion reactor. Negotiations have made progress. They hope that the reactor can provide inexhaustible alternative energy. But after two days of talks at the Vienna International Atomic Energy Agency, the delegates decided to meet in Tokyo on April 18, 1991, and then finalize the agreement on the engineering design of the ITER project.