You're currently reading the news digest published from 3 April to 10 April Featured 6. Of interest 1. Travelling light Components for the ITER machine and plant systems come in all shapes, sizes and weights. Here, the hydraulic bridge trailer carrying a segment of the cryostat passes the gorge of Mirabeau, 10 kilometres to the south of the ITER site. As for the CEL, their number is estimated at 3, Once loaded onto a trailer, the HEL must be transferred to a specially-designed barge and ferried across the inland sea Etang-de-Berre.
CEL, on the other hand, travel by day on regular roads directly from Fos harbour and completely avoid crossing the Etang-de-Berre. They also do not require roadway closings and demand only limited technical assistance, plus two gendarmerie motorcyclists to regulate traffic. The difference in cost is considerable. The objective, defined with Europe, is to bring down the number of anticipated HEL loads from to less than But as their height only exceeded the CEL definition by 65 centimetres it was worth trying to downgrade them.
ITER was still a paper project waiting to coalesce into a tangible reality. Back from the worksite, he was able to sit with Newsline for an informal interview.
It has been almost eight years since you last saw the ITER site with your own eyes. What did you feel when you went down into the Tokamak Pit this morning? I can say that today I saw the dream turning into reality. Of course, I've been watching the progress of construction and manufacturing through the ITER website and publications. But this morning was a different experience. Suddenly, it's real and I can imagine how the Council members feel when they look through the windows of the Council Chamber on the fifth floor.
The years were at times difficult for ITER. Did you ever doubt? No, I never did. Big ambitious projects take time. It took more than a century to build a cathedral Does this mean that we've lost the capacity to project our dreams over long periods of time?
