Well, I guess the French can kiss that Amer­i­can money good­bye on the Inter­na­tional Ther­monu­clear Exper­i­men­tal Reac­tor. The Japan­ese got some perks out of let­ting the Frogs have the reac­tor ($500 mil­lion worth of con­tracts for con­struct­ing ITER could go to Japan­ese com­pa­nies, Japan could pro­vide 20% of the 200 researchers in return for meet­ing 10% of the total cost, blah blah blah), but it just seems like another France vs. U.S. sit­u­a­tion to me. My pre­dic­tion? Look for a pos­si­ble pro­posal of a com­pet­ing reac­tor in the States.