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At an Extraordinary Meeting held in Paris on 5 March 2015, the ITER Council appointed Dr Bernard Bigot as the next Director-General of the ITER Organization, succeeding Prof Osamu Motojima.

Dr Bigot, a distinguished scientist, was the Chairman and CEO of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, CEA (Administrateur Général, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) and was also the High Commissioner for ITER in France before he joined the ITER Organization. Dr Bigot has had a long and distinguished career and a record of close involvement with ITER. He is an experienced senior manager of large programs and projects, a leader capable of finding common ground among ITER Members, an excellent communicator, and he is highly respected by the fusion research community. He has taken up his duties as Director-General immediately. In 2014, faced with slippage in the schedule, the ITER Council decided to establish a new baseline for the project (scope, schedule and cost). Development of the new schedule began under Director-General Motojima. Director-General Bigot is continuing this effort and plans to provide a new baseline

In 2014, faced with slippage in the schedule, the ITER Council decided to establish a new baseline for the project (scope, schedule and cost). Development of the new schedule began under Director-General Motojima. Director-General Bigot is continuing this effort and plans to provide a new baseline at the ITER Council meeting in November 2015.

The transition of the project from its design completion phase to its full construction phase motivated the early handover from Prof Motojima to his successor Dr Bigot. Prof Motojima, appointed Emeritus Director-General of the ITER Organization by Dr Bigot, is leaving ITER with the gratitude of the ITER Council and after having made significant contributions to this critically important, and very complex, international endeavour. Prof Motojima said: “I am pleased by the ITER Council decision to appoint Dr Bigot as the next Director-General and I would like to heartily express my congratulations to him. I appreciated the warm acknowledgement given to me today, and it is my great honour to have the title of Director-General Emeritus conferred on me.”

The ITER Council endorsed the Action Plan presented by Dr Bigot, which addresses and is in line with the recommendations of the most recent Management Assessment and stresses the importance of delivery of the revised project baseline. Dr Bigot said: “The whole world needs innovative technologies to assure its long-term sustainable supply of energy. Magnetic confinement fusion is one of the most promising options. I am deeply honoured for the possibility of contributing to the large, international and ambitious research program that is ITER, which has innovation as its aim. Be assured that I will do my best to meet the expectations of the ITER Members.”

Source: F4E

With the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, FuseNet (The European Fusion Education Network) and ENEN (The European Nuclear Education Network) have started a new cooperation between their networks.

At the General Assembly meeting that took place at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, Prof. Walter Ambrosini (President of ENEN, left) and Prof. Niek Lopes Cardozo (President of FuseNet, right) have signed the Memorandum of Understanding between the two networks. While the FuseNet Association was founded in 2010 and ENEN was established much earlier in 2003, their networks are in many ways similar.

We have much to learn from each other

There are many areas in which FuseNet and ENEN hope to benefit from each other's knowledge. As the nuclear aspects of fusion energy become more prominent - ITER is truly a nuclear device - the need to provide fusion students and engineers with proper education and training in this field becomes ever larger. Likewise, nuclear engineers are in high demand in the fusion enterprises now, and they may benefit from a fusion training.

Another field where clearly the fusion world can learn lessons from the fission community is the Job taxonomy, Human Resource strategy and derived from that, an Education and Training policy. So, more than enough reasons to join forces with ENEN. For the signing ceremony FuseNet honoured by the live presence of the president of ENEN Prof. Walter Ambrosini, who with his presence underscored the importance ENEN attaches to this collaboration.

"We have much to learn from each other", concluded Prof. Niek Lopes Cardozo. "I’m sure it will be to the benefit of both organisations and moreover, to the young generation of fusion as well as fission students".

Source: FuseNet

Amerykańskim badaczom udało się uzyskać ważne wyniki w badaniach nad fuzją termojądrową. Ten wynik to krok milowy w badaniach nad opanowaniem laserowej syntezy termojądrowej dla przyszłej produkcji energii elektrycznej - komentuje dr hab. Jerzy Wołowski.

Pierwszy ciężki ładunek, transformator elektryczny o masie ok 90 ton, dotarł na plac budowy ITER dziś w nocy z 13 na 14 stycznia.

"W najbliższych miesiącach należy spodziewać się jeszcze bardziej imponujących ładunków, których masa będzie sięgała do 600 ton", powiedział Dyrektor ITER Osamu Motojima.

W celu zapewnienia bezpiecznej dostawy takiego ładunku do konwoju zaangażowano 120 osób, w tym 80 żołnierzy.

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The Korean Domestic Agency signed an important contract with Korean supplier Wonil Corp. for the ITER vacuum vessel gravity supports on 11 December 2014. Nine sets of gravity supports will be assembled under the lower ports to allow for the vacuum vessel's thermal expansion and to sustain loads in the radial, toroidal and vertical directions.

The supplier Wonil Corp. is a leading company in the heavy machining industry and has good experience with the ITER quality system through its participation in the procurement of the ITER blanket shield blocks and the assembly tooling. During the signing ceremony, the company strongly expressed its enthusiasm to carry out the mission and meet the demands of the vacuum vessel schedule and quality requirements for ITER.

Source: ITER