Italian Consul, Bernardino Mancini
On Tuesday ,12 May, Bernardino Mancini, the Italian Consul in Marseille came to visit ITER. Thierry Brosseron from Agence ITER France invited him to a ITER site tour and Stefano Chiocchio from the ITER Project Office explained the project's goals and outline in Italian.
Then Director-General Kaname Ikeda invited the Consul to lunch together with the Italian ITER staff as well as few Italian scientists working at Tore Supra.
After the lunch, Gabriel Marbach, Director of the "Institut de Recherche sur la Fusion Magnétique" within CEA gave them a tour around Tore Supra.