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An international committee has postponed a vote on the site of the world’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor after failing to reach consensus at a meeting in the United States, France said Saturday.

Members of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project met in Washington on Friday and Saturday to choose between a site in France and one in Japan to host the $12 billion project.

“At the end of the meeting . . . it was agreed by all parties present that no definitive choice could be made at this stage,” France’s Research Ministry said.

The project is billed as the future of renewable energy.