 The long anticipated moment: François Gauché, DG Kaname Ikeda and Didier Gambier cutting the ribbon.  You can hardly miss it now: The sign showing the way to the new ITER Headquarters. "This building is the result of true cooperation of different actors," Didier Gambier, Director of the European Domestic Agency "Fusion for Energy" pointed out in his address: "Built with 5,6 Million Euros of the financial support by the European Union, on a site that has been leveled and prepared by Agence ITER France, it will from now on host 300 staff of the ITER Organization, amongst them the Director- General." Celebrating the inauguration of the new ITER Headquarters was clearly a remarkable day in the progress of the project and fully deserved to be celebrated with champagne and a delicious cake. But, as the Director of the Agence ITER France, Francois Gauche, said, "the work does not stop here." More than 250 people, mostly from the Provence-Alpes Côte d'Azur (PACA) region are currently engaged in finalizing the site leveling works which are expected to be completed at the beginning of 2009. This will be followed by the excavation of the tokamak complex and the laying of the first foundations for the annex buildings expected to take place at the end of 2009. To view many more photos of the inauguration, click here ... << return to Newsline #59 |
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