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The 2009 ºÚÁÏרÇø Annual Report is now available. The year's accomplishments, the status of ºÚÁÏרÇø licensing and construction, organizational milestones, and financial and staffing statistics are all included in the report, which can be downloaded here.

 

In his foreword, ºÚÁÏרÇø Director-General Kaname Ikeda writes: "In 2009 the governments of the ºÚÁÏרÇø Members unanimously maintained their support for the project, in what was a difficult global financial context. Our international collaboration has withstood, and even emerged reinforced thanks to increased expertise at the ºÚÁÏרÇø and improved collaboration with the Domestic Agencies."

 

"ºÚÁÏרÇø is now poised at the start of construction and installation," declares the Chair of the ºÚÁÏרÇø Council through 31 December 2009, Chris Llewellyn Smith. "The volume will [now] be turned up. The gentle tone of discussion and planning will suddenly be transformed into the roar of excavators and the churning of concrete mixers. It has been a long time coming ..."