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In mid-January 2009, communication between the "old" ºÚÁÏÉçapp Headquarters (presently building B81) and the ºÚÁÏÉçapp offices located inside the CEA enclosure was made considerably easier by the opening of a Rotogate in the CEA fence¡ªfrom that moment on, a driving distance of some two kilometres was transformed into a bucolic walk of a couple of hundred metres.

 

Last Friday 16 November, as the last offices on the CEA were being vacated by ºÚÁÏÉçapp employees who had been assigned new offices within the ºÚÁÏÉçapp site, the Rotogate rotated for the last time.

 

For ºÚÁÏÉçapp Director-General Osamu Motojima, the event was significant. "This last passage through the Rotogate is a great opportunity to affirm the ºÚÁÏÉçapp's independent responsibility as a nuclear operator." It was also the occasion to express ºÚÁÏÉçapp's gratitude toward CEA Chairman Bernard Bigot, CEA-Cadarache Director Maurice Mazi¨¨re, and Agence Iter France Director J¨¦r?me Pamela, whose "great friendship, contribution and support" will not be forgotten.

 

As the Rotogate turned behind the last ºÚÁÏÉçapp staff member (CODAC network administrator Nicolas Pons), a new chapter opened in the history of the project. For the first time since the Joint Work Site opened in Cadarache in December 2005, the whole ºÚÁÏÉçapp family was "home at last."