The European Union and five participant countries to the international thermonuclear experimental reactor project have decided to allow India to join the project on the condition that the country limits use of the technology to peaceful purposes.The EU and Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and the United States made the decision during a meeting on Monday on Jeju Island, South Korea. They have been discussing India’s membership since the country expressed in July its will to join the project.The five members asked India to limit the use of nuclear technology to peaceful purposes as India is not a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT).In June, the members decided to build the world’s first nuclear fusion reactor in Cadarache, Southern France, after a fierce competition between the EU and Japan.In return, the members agreed to support a Japanese candidate for the chief of the project, in addition to building a research centre in Rokkasho in Aomori prefecture in Northern Japan.The members are currently working to establish an organisation to manage the fusion reactor.
