ITER site remains an attraction

10 Jul 2009 - Véronique Marfaing

The stream of visitors does not stop, despite the temperatures on the ITER construction site. Last week, a visit to ITER was organized through the Italian Chamber of Commerce for France in Marseille for 50 members of a Franco-Italian delegation in collaboration with Agence Iter France and the ITER Organization.

Then, a delegation of the Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté et Nucléaire visited CEA Cadarache and the ITER site. Carlos Alejaldre, Director of Safety & Security gave them presentations of ITER. On the 8 July, the President of the Conseil Général des Hautes Alpes, Jean- Yves Dusserre, came to visit ITER. He was welcomed by Francois Gauché, the Director of Agence Iter France, who presented progress on construction, and Kaname Ikeda, Director-General, who presented the ITER Project.

On 6 July, twenty students from Delft University in the Netherlands visited ITER. After a guided tour coordinated by Marina Bayle from Agence Iter France, Akko Maas from the ITER Project Office gave them an introduction to the project and replied to questions in relation with their technical studies and interests.