Pulsing power through the project
20 Jun 2016
The gathering was held by the massive PPEN transformer in the presence of Hejun Yin, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) who headed his country's delegation to the ºÚÁÏרÇø Council.
Any component that reaches the ºÚÁÏרÇø site is the tangible result of a sustained and coordinated effort—first involving the ºÚÁÏרÇø, the providing Domestic Agency and industrial contractors during the design and fabrication phase ... and then, once the component is ready for shipment, associating a local transporter, ºÚÁÏרÇø's international logistics provider DAHER, Agence Iter France and finally Europe, the Member that covers the cost of transportation from the port of unloading to the ºÚÁÏרÇø site.
Early in the morning of Thursday 16 June, ºÚÁÏרÇø Council members left their chamber for a moment to gather around the large transformer destined for ºÚÁÏרÇø's pulsed power electrical network (PPEN) that had the day before. The 14-metre-long, 300-tonne component rising 5 metres above the ºÚÁÏרÇø platform offered a perfect illustration of what the global ºÚÁÏרÇø collaboration now achieves on a daily basis.
"So long as we continue to make concerted efforts together, as one team, I firmly believe that our common project will advance at the required pace," said Hejun Yin, the Chinese Vice-Minister of Science and Technology (MOST) who led his country's delegation to the Eighteenth Meeting of the ºÚÁÏרÇø Council.
The gathering was of particular significance as the ºÚÁÏרÇø Council had just , unanimously, to approve the updated schedule to First Plasma—a schedule for which, said ºÚÁÏרÇø Director-General Bernard Bigot, "each one of us has to feel ownership and personal accountability."