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The Eighteenth Meeting of the ITER Council takes place at ITER Headquarters on 15 and 16 June 2016, with representatives of all ITER Members attending.

15 June 2016

ITER Council Chair Won Namkung is flanked by Council Secretary Sachiko Ishizaka on his right and ITER Council advisory body Chairs Massimo Garribba (MAC) and Yutaka Kamada (STAC) on his left. The US delegation is in the background.

15 June 2016

ITER's Deputy Director-Generals: Eisuke Tada (Relations Coordinating Officer) and Gyung-Su Lee (Chief Operating Officer).

15 June 2016

From the ITER Organization: Akko Maas, Science Engineering Officer; Laban Coblentz, Head of Communication; and Kattalai Ramachandran Sriram, Head of the Finance & Procurement Department.

15 June 2016

The Head of Delegation for the US Member is Franklin Orr (right), US Under Secretary for Science and Energy, Department of Energy (DOE). He is speaking with Adam Cohen, Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Energy (DOE).

15 June 2016

Honorary ITER Council Fellow Evgeny Velikhov is also the President of the Russian Kurchatov Institute and former ITER Council Chair. Here, he speaks with the Chair of the Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC),Yutaka Kamada.

15 June 2016

For Won Namkung, the Eighteenth ITER Council (IC-18) was the first regular meeting of his term as Council Chair. (He also presided an Extraordinary Meeting of the ITER Council on 27 April 2016.) He is seen making his opening statement at the start of IC-18 on 15 June.

15 June 2016

During a short pause in the proceedings Guenter Janeschitz, Deputy Head of ITER's Central Integration Office, exchanges with Richard Kamendje, an observer to the ITER Council from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In the background is Laban Coblentz, ITER Head of Communication.

15 June 2016

From left to right: Hejun Yin, Head of the delegation from China and Vice-Minister MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology); Dominique Ristori, Head of the delegation from Europe and Director-General, Directorate-General for Energy, European Commission; and Yalan Zhu, Project Officer, ITER China, MOST.

15 June 2016

Members of the delegation from Russia (left to right): Vladimir Vlasenkov, Deputy Head of ITER Russia; Viacheslav Pershukov, Deputy Director General, Head of Innovation, Rosatom (back turned); Igor Borovkov, Head of Delegation, Deputy Chief of Staff, Government Executive Office of the Russian Federation; Marina Zbaratskaya, translator; and Sergey Mazurenko, Member of the Russian Federation Presidential Council for Science and Education.

15 June 2016

The official group photo for the Eighteenth Meeting of the ITER Council, with representatives of the ITER Members China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States.

15 June 2016

ITER Deputy Director-General Eisuke Tada speaks with members of the Japanese delegation: Shigekazu Matsuura, Director of the International Nuclear and Fusion Energy Affairs Division, Research and Development Bureau, MEXT; and Hideyuki Takatsu, Scientific Counsellor, Naka Fusion Institute (QST) and former ITER Council Chair.

15 June 2016

ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot (right) and Dominique Ristori from the European Commission (Director-General, DG Energy).

15 June 2016

Domestic Agency Heads Johannes Schwemmer (Europe) and Kijung Jung (Korea). In the background, Head of the Director-General's Cabinet, Ioan Cruceana.

15 June 2016

Representing India: Dhiraj Bora, Director of the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) and former ITER Director of CODAC, Heating & Diagnostics; Shishir Deshpande, ITER India Head; and Ujjwal Baruah, Project Manager, ITER India, IPR.

15 June 2016