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Brexit's Impact Stretches From Deep Space To Nuclear Fusion

The ITER nuclear fusion reactor in France is a roughly $20 billion project designed to produce energy through the fusion of light atoms of hydrogen. The EU bears nearly half the project's cost but there is no plan in place for Britain's participation post-Brexit. "We are rudderless," says a British scientist involved in the project. (Christian Lunig/VG Bild und Kunst)
The ITER nuclear fusion reactor in France is a roughly $20 billion project designed to produce energy through the fusion of light atoms of hydrogen. The EU bears nearly half the project's cost but there is no plan in place for Britain's participation post-Brexit. "We are rudderless," says a British scientist involved in the project. (Christian Lunig/VG Bild und Kunst)

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