The opportunities of the civil nuclear energy
La Seyne Sur Mer July 1st, 2010
VAR ITER ACTIONS gathers the Var Chamber of Commerce and Industry (industry department and Var Accueil Investisseurs), the Var Chamber of jobs and Crafts, Toulon Var Technologies Innovation and the Var Departmental Council. On July 1st, this network will organize in the office of CNIM (Brégaillon – La Seyne sur mer) a meeting on the following subjects: the opportunities of the civil nuclear energy, ITER and the CEA of Cadarache for the var industry. Program and registration on: http://variteractions.tvt.fr/ for further detailsEUROSATORY Exhibition
Paris 14-18 June 2010
Var Accueil Investisseurs participates to the EUROSATORY exhibition – land, Airland, Homeland Defence Week in order to promote the defense and safety sector in the Var- HALL 5 - S440. for further details81st “Foire de Brignoles”
Brignoles 10 – 18 April 2010
Var Accueil Investisseurs will be present to the 81st “Foire de Brignoles” (45 000 visitors) at the stand of the Var Chamber of Commerce and Industry. At this occasion a company which was accompanied by the agency will be presented. 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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