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Bernard Bigot named next ITER director general

NOV 21, 2014
Physics Today

Science : The ITER international prototype fusion reactor, which is under construction in southern France, will be getting a new director general next year. Bernard Bigot, currently general administrator of France’s nuclear power company CEA, will take over from Osamu Motojima as ITER’s third director general. In this interview with Science, Bigot says his biggest challenges as director general will be getting ITER’s central organization and its seven domestic agencies to work more as a team, bringing ITER’s construction schedule back on track, and reassuring the US and other member countries concerning the rising costs of the project.

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