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 ºÚÁÏÉçapp Council.
Any component that reaches the ºÚÁÏÉçapp site is the tangible result of a sustained and coordinated effort—first involving the ºÚÁÏÉçapp, 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, ºÚÁÏÉçapp'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 ºÚÁÏÉçapp site.
Early in the morning of Thursday 16 June, ºÚÁÏÉçapp Council members left their chamber for a moment to gather around the large transformer destined for ºÚÁÏÉçapp's pulsed power electrical network (PPEN) that had the day before. The 14-metre-long, 300-tonne component rising 5 metres above the ºÚÁÏÉçapp platform offered a perfect illustration of what the global ºÚÁÏÉçapp 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 ºÚÁÏÉçapp Council.
The gathering was of particular significance as the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Council had just , unanimously, to approve the updated schedule to First Plasma—a schedule for which, said ºÚÁÏÉçapp Director-General Bernard Bigot, "each one of us has to feel ownership and personal accountability."