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The ITER community

United in a common goal

30 Sep 2024

Gathered on the ITER platform for a group photo (the first one since 2019, in pre-Covid times) the crowd looks impressive. Although several hundred strong, it represents only a portion of all the men and women involved in the daily progress of the ITER project.

ITER Organization directly employed staff numbered 1,102 at the end of 2023. The community at work on the ITER site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, greatly exceeds this figure. ITER Project Associates, interim personnel, contractors, and staff from Fusion for Energy and the other Members' Domestic Agencies detached to the ITER site add many more to the total, many of whom were present for this photo opportunity.

All in all, 6,500 people—a unique cosmopolitan community—united in the common goal of building the scientific installation that will demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy. (Photo Gérard Lesenechal)

Click here to download a full-resolution version of the ITER staff photo (Password: Staff_Photo)

2006-02-15 - The Original Six in front of what is still the "Cadarache Joint Work Site." From left to right: Jean-Philippe Girard, Eisuke Tada, Akko Maas, John How, Aurélie Annicchiarico, Jerry Sovka and Tetsushi Nagahama.
2006-12-15 - In front of "Building 519" inside the French CEA premises. Staff from the other Joint Work Sites in Naka, Japan, and Garching, Germany, will soon join.
2008-02-21 - Significant growth.
2008-11-14 - Same building, but the "Joint Work Site" is now officially the ITER Organization headquarters.
2009-05-22 - ITER Organization, Fusion for Energy and Agence Iter France gather on the platform at the very spot where the tokamak pit will soon be excavated.
2016-10-20 - Inside the Cryostat Workshop, where welding operations on the cryostat base have just begun.
2017-10-03 - A much larger space is required to gather the ITER staff, now approaching the 1,000 mark (not all pictured). Photo Gérard Lesenechal.
2019-11-20 - Staff numbers and Tokamak Building structures are progressing in parallel. (Photo Gérard Lesenechal)
2024-09-26 - The ITER Organization and Domestic Agencies, staff, contractors, ITER Project Associates and interim personnel gather on the ITER platform on Thursday 26 September for the first group photo since pre-Covid times. (Photo Gérard Lesenechal)
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