Nuke fusion project Iter partner ministers to sign accord May 24

Brussels (Platts)--3Apr2006

Ministers from the seven partner countries in the next generation nuclear
fusion project known as Iter are to initial the international agreement
backing it on May 24 in Brussels, the European Commission said Saturday.
The chief Iter negotiators from China, the European Union, India, Japan,
Russia, South Korea and the US met in Tokyo Saturday to finalize the top
management team and to endorse the international agreement that is to govern
the project. Iter's director-general is to be Kaname Ikeda from Japan, while
the principal deputy director-general is to be Norbert Holtkamp from the EU.
Work on building the Iter project at the agreed site in Caderache,
southern France, is due to start later this year.

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