In reply to Tringa:
> I would have thought he or his advisers might have known the nuclear fusion project he mentioned at the conference yesterday as a great example of what we can do in the UK, is very largely funded by the EU.
The 220m he's promised is a drop in the ocean
Back when I worked at JET (Joint European Torus, clue in the name) in the 90's their annual budget was over 90m, probably lower now though, as its just being used as a test bed for ITER
MAST is a much smaller and cheaper project though.