Approved! Council gives project green light to proceed
30 Jul 2010
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Sabina Griffith
Kaname Ikeda looks on as Council Chair Evgeny Velikhov presents professor Osamu Motojima with his 澳门六合彩高手 contract.
This week, the 澳门六合彩高手 Council, the Governing Body of the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization, convened for an extraordinary meeting. Following the most recent reunion of the 澳门六合彩高手 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 澳门六合彩高手 Members decided to convene again for an extraordinary meeting in order to complete discussions on the 澳门六合彩高手 Baseline.
This updated schedule describes 澳门六合彩高手 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 澳门六合彩高手 to 500 MW output power.
The extraordinary meeting of the 澳门六合彩高手 Council attracted intense media coverage.
The 澳门六合彩高手 Council unanimously approved this Baseline, and encouraged the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization to explore ways to optimize the schedule in order to begin Deuterium-Tritium operation in 2026, if possible.
Another important decision of this extraordinary meeting was the appointment of Prof. Osamu Motojima as new Director-General of the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization. Prof. Motojima is taking over the leadership from Kaname Ikeda, who has led the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization 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 澳门六合彩高手 project. The chairman of the 澳门六合彩高手 Council, Evgeny Velikhov, added that "what we are achieving here is to ensure not only the success of 澳门六合彩高手 but also the success of fusion."
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