For the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Safety and Quality team, the mission to Korea was an opportunity to visit the KSTAR tokamak in Daejeon. From left to right: Byunghoon YOON, Chief Quality & Safety Officer (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Korea); Usama Abdulkader, nuclear safety inspector (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization); Si-Woo Yoon, Vice-President (Korea Institute of Fusion Energy); Gilles Perrier, Head of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Safety and Quality Department (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization); Thomas Sobrier, nuclear safety inspector (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization); and Chang Ho Choi, Deputy Head (°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Korea).
Although they are °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization employees, nuclear inspectors Thomas Sobrier and Usama Abdulkader are "independent" experts. It is their mission to verify that the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization itself, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Domestic Agencies, and all the entities that participate in the project implement the requirements related to management of Protection Important Components¹ (PIC) and Protection Important Activities. In Korea, they were accompanied by Gilles Perrier, the Head of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ's Safety & Quality Department.