Pulsing power through the project
20 Jun 2016
The gathering was held by the massive PPEN transformer in the presence of Hejun Yin, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) who headed his country's delegation to the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council.
Any component that reaches the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ site is the tangible result of a sustained and coordinated effort—first involving the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, the providing Domestic Agency and industrial contractors during the design and fabrication phase ... and then, once the component is ready for shipment, associating a local transporter, ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's international logistics provider DAHER, Agence Iter France and finally Europe, the Member that covers the cost of transportation from the port of unloading to the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ site.
Early in the morning of Thursday 16 June, ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council members left their chamber for a moment to gather around the large transformer destined for ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's pulsed power electrical network (PPEN) that had the day before. The 14-metre-long, 300-tonne component rising 5 metres above the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ platform offered a perfect illustration of what the global ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ collaboration now achieves on a daily basis.
"So long as we continue to make concerted efforts together, as one team, I firmly believe that our common project will advance at the required pace," said Hejun Yin, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) who led his country's delegation to the Eighteenth Meeting of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council.
The gathering was of particular significance as the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council had just , unanimously, to approve the updated schedule to First Plasma—a schedule for which, said ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Director-General Bernard Bigot, "each one of us has to feel ownership and personal accountability."