They made it possible!
To achieve what Director-General Pietro Barabaschi called the “record performance” of transferring sector module #7 to the tokamak assembly pit, the “human factor” was key.
The operation required “exceptional competence and dedication from all across the project,” he wrote in an email to staff, as well as the smooth and efficient collaboration between all the entities—and there were many!—involved in the operation.
Approximately 150 people were involved, and they could not all fit in the narrow space next to the installed sector module, or in the clean corridor leading to the port cell where a technical desk was temporarily created to monitor the parameters of the operation. But those photographed represented their colleagues—the riggers, lifting crew and engineers from Chinese contractor CNPE; ITER supervisors and assembly experts; construction management-as-agent technicians and engineers; crane technical support from REEL; and crane pilots from Foselev. A unique conjunction of specialized talent that made the operation a success.
