Iter Business Forum 2011
Manosque December 7 & 8, 2011
Var Accueil Investisseurs participates to the next Iter Business Forum 2001 in Manosque, in collaboration with the WOIC Iter and renewable energy. This event will include: an industrial conference with a plenary session and thematic workshops, Business to Business Meetings (“One on One”) scheduled on line by companies themselves, a dinner on December 7 for networking purpose, a visit of the ITER Site at Cadarache. for further details
The international ITER and nuclear project
The international dimension
The seven project partners (Europe, United States, Japan, Russia, China, South Korea and India) unanimously chose the Cadarache site to house ITER in June 2005. This project is one of the world's biggest ever international collaborative projects embarked upon, representing over half the globe's population.The scientific challenge
Nuclear fusion nucléaire entails reproducing the energy contained in the sun's and stars' cores on earth and converting it into electricity. The ITER scientific project aims to prove that fusion could become an energy source by the 2050 dateline: a safe form of energy, with no risk of explosion or wide-scale contamination, and inexhaustible over time.The strategic aspects
The ITER programme aims to coordinate all the technologies developed to date to construct a reliable and marketable reactor, whose assembly is scheduled to start in 2012 and be up and running by 2016. Each individual partner is manufacturing part of the reactor elements, all the contributions coming to 80% of the total project cost.Economic impact
ITER is already contributing to the region's economic development through the direct, indirect and induced jobs. During the construction phase, the international ITER organisation will employ 500 people directly and will generate approximately 3 000 jobs in France including 1 400 in our region.The extent of the resources
Investment in the ITER project is put at 10.3 billion euros over 40 years including 4.7 bn for its construction (10 years) and 4.8 bn for its operation (20 years).
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