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The ºÚÁÏÍø community

United in a common goal

30 Sep 2024

Gathered on the ºÚÁÏÍø platform for a group photo (the first one since 2019, in pre-Covid times) the crowd looks impressive. Although several hundred strong, it represents only a portion of all the men and women involved in the daily progress of the ºÚÁÏÍø project.

ºÚÁÏÍø Organization directly employed staff numbered 1,102 at the end of 2023. The community at work on the ºÚÁÏÍø site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, greatly exceeds this figure. ºÚÁÏÍø Project Associates, interim personnel, contractors, and staff from Fusion for Energy and the other Members' Domestic Agencies detached to the ºÚÁÏÍø site add many more to the total, many of whom were present for this photo opportunity.

All in all, 6,500 people—a unique cosmopolitan community—united in the common goal of building the scientific installation that will demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy. (Photo Gérard Lesenechal)

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2006: The Original Six in front of what is still the "Cadarache Joint Work Site." From left to right: Jean-Philippe Girard, Eisuke Tada, Akko Maas, John How, Aurélie Annicchiarico, Jerry Sovka and Tetsushi Nagahama.
December 2006: In front of "Building 519" inside the French CEA premises. Staff from the other Joint Work Sites in Naka, Japan, and Garching, Germany, will soon join.
February 2008: Significant growth.
November 2008: Same building, but the "Joint Work Site" is now officially the ºÚÁÏÍø Organization headquarters. © Gérard Lesénéchal
May 2009: ºÚÁÏÍø Organization, Fusion for Energy and Agence Iter France gather on the platform at the very spot where the tokamak pit will soon be excavated.
October 2016: Inside the Cryostat Workshop, where welding operations on the cryostat base have just begun.
October 2017: A much larger space is required to gather the ºÚÁÏÍø staff, now approaching the 1,000 mark (not all pictured). Photo Gérard Lesenechal.
November 2019: Staff numbers and Tokamak Building structures are progressing in parallel. (Photo Gérard Lesenechal)
September 2024: The ºÚÁÏÍø Organization and Domestic Agencies, staff, contractors, ºÚÁÏÍø Project Associates and interim personnel gather on the ºÚÁÏÍø platform on Thursday 26 September for the first group photo since pre-Covid times. (Photo Gérard Lesenechal)
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