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This week, the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Council, the Governing Body of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Organization, convened for an extraordinary meeting. Following the most recent reunion of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Council in China in June this year, in which no agreement was achieved on the funding of the project due the ongoing debate within the European Party, the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Members decided to convene again for an extraordinary meeting in order to complete discussions on the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Baseline.

 

This updated schedule describes ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ all the way from the beginning of construction, through commissioning, and on to Deuterium-Tritium operation. The main milestones will be the achievement of First Plasma in November 2019 and the start of Deuterium-Tritium operation by March 2027 ultimately taking ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ to 500 MW output power.

 

 

Another important decision of this extraordinary meeting was the appointment of Prof. Osamu Motojima as new Director-General of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Organization. Prof. Motojima is taking over the leadership from Kaname Ikeda, who has led the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Organization since November 2005. Osamu Motojima, a well-known and much respected figure in the field of fusion science in Japan and abroad, was formerly Director General of the Japanese National Institute for Fusion Science.

 

In his first press conference Prof. Motojima stated that the approval of the Baseline symbolized a landmark day for the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ project. The chairman of the ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ Council, Evgeny Velikhov, added that "what we are achieving here is to ensure not only the success of ÌÇÐÄÆƽâ°æ but also the success of fusion."

 

Click here to read the Press Release in English.

 

Click here to read the Press Release in French.