Science: The Senate appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development yesterday marked up a spending bill for the 2016 fiscal year that omitted funding for ITER, the multi-billion-dollar international fusion experiment that is currently under construction in Cadarache, France. The same bill increases funding for basic research at the Department of Energy by 1.5% to $5.1 billion. Whether the ITER cut will survive is unclear. On 1 May the House passed its version of the bill, which provided $150 million for ITER.
