“The ITER [International Thermonuclear Test Reactor] Agreement does not provide for the possibility of terminating the participation or suspension of the rights of any ITER Member, including the participation in the ITER Council…. It only provides for the eventuality of a member withdrawing on its own accord.” This was the written answer given on July 25 by EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen to three members of the EU Parliament, who, in a display of the anti-Russian hysteria infecting the brains of many in Europe, demanded to know how to “phase out dependence on Russian participation in ITER” as an overlooked part of Europe’s suicidal exit from dependence on Russian energy.
Jørgensen informed the three that Russia had fulfilled all of its in-kind contributions to the project, meaning that “consequently, the dependency on Russia is now reduced in this regard.”
