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Date
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14 MARCH 2013
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Time
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18:00 - 20:00
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Event Type
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Meeting
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This is a joint professional meeting with the Southern Branch of IStructE.
Refreshments will be available from 18.00 and the presentations will commence at 18.30.
ITER is a large-scale scientific experiment intended to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source, and to collect the data necessary for the design and subsequent operation of the first electricity-producing fusion power plant. The ITER Agreement includes China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States. The Members of the ITER Organization will bear the cost of the project through its 10-year construction phase and its 20-year operational phase before decommissioning. Scientists from all over the world have come together in ITER to work toward a lofty goal: harness the energy produced by the fusion of atoms to help meet mankind's energy needs.
In Cadarache, Southern France, ITER construction has begun on the scientific facilities. Manufacturing of components for ITER is underway in Members' industries all over the world; the level of coordination required for the successful fabrication of over one million parts for the ITER Tokamak alone is daily creating a new model of international scientific collaboration.
The incredibly complex ITER Tokamak will be nearly 30 metres tall, and weigh 23,000 tons.
Two speakers will discuss the science and the Civil engineering construction: Timothy Watson is Director of the BSI Directorate at ITER and Dr Kevin Stone is Lecturer in Civil Engineering at the University of Brighton.
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