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This week, the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council, the Governing Body of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, convened for an extraordinary meeting. Following the most recent reunion of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council in China in June this year, in which no agreement was achieved on the funding of the project due the ongoing debate within the European Party, the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Members decided to convene again for an extraordinary meeting in order to complete discussions on the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Baseline.

 

This updated schedule describes ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ all the way from the beginning of construction, through commissioning, and on to Deuterium-Tritium operation. The main milestones will be the achievement of First Plasma in November 2019 and the start of Deuterium-Tritium operation by March 2027 ultimately taking ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ to 500 MW output power.

 

 

Another important decision of this extraordinary meeting was the appointment of Prof. Osamu Motojima as new Director-General of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ. Prof. Motojima is taking over the leadership from Kaname Ikeda, who has led the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ since November 2005. Osamu Motojima, a well-known and much respected figure in the field of fusion science in Japan and abroad, was formerly Director General of the Japanese National Institute for Fusion Science.

 

In his first press conference Prof. Motojima stated that the approval of the Baseline symbolized a landmark day for the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ project. The chairman of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council, Evgeny Velikhov, added that "what we are achieving here is to ensure not only the success of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ but also the success of fusion."

 

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Click here to read the Press Release in French.