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Strategic and symbolic buildings change hands
7 Jan 2019
Constructing and delivering the installation's buildings to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization is a major part of Europe's contribution to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Project.
On Friday 21 December 2018, the last working day of the year, an important milestone was passed as a large area on the north of the platform was handed over to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization by the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy.
"There is something highly symbolic in the nature of the buildings we are receiving today," said °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Director-General Bernard Bigot in his address. "They all belong to the installation's heat rejection system and they are what makes °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ unique among fusion machines — a tokamak that will produce considerable amounts of energy for a significant duration and overpass the breakeven of input/output ratio."
Designing and fabricating the high-performance system that will evacuate the heat generated by the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ plasmas was part of India's contributions to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ; building the concrete basins and infrastructure was the work of Europe, and installing the equipment will be the responsibility of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization.
For Director-General Bigot, this realization was "yet another clear demonstration of the One Team spirit and °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ values among all the stakeholders."