 The Vacuum Vessel Forum was "a very impressive meeting indeed", as TAG Chairman Michel Huguet put it. The ITER Technical Advisory Group (TAG) devoted a full day of its four-day meeting marathon this week to these questions, involving twenty-two industry representatives from Europe, Japan and Korea to provide recommendations based on their expertise. During the forum, a presentation was given by Hirohisa Takano from Toshiba reviewing the past experience producing a full-size mock-up.  "Fusion for Energy" (F4E) sent its new ad-interim Director Frank Briscoe and senior technical advisors. In the afternoon, after a series of presentations on manufacturing feasibility and alternative approaches, the meeting broke up into one-on-one discussions in which representatives of the four large consortia that are bidding for the contract with F4E, together with TAG and ITER management, discussed the various approaches in more detail.  In the afternoon the meeting broke out into one-on-one discussions with the industry representatives. The recommendations stemming from this meeting, together with outputs from other schedule-related meetings, will be presented to the Heads of Delegations in February this year. << return to Newsline #115 |
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