ITER Blueprints Near Completion, But Financial Hurdles Lie Ahead

摘要

When diplomat Kaname Ikeda took the job of director-general of the ITER fusion reactor project in 2006, he quickly realized that he was building something literally from the ground up. "There was just a forest here when I started and six or seven people working," he says. Now a large, if temporary, office building houses more than 400 staff members and another one is taking shape next door.