OREANDA-NEWS. November 27, 2007. The first meeting of the ITER Council (the governing body of ITER Organization) is taking place in Cadarache (France) on Nov 27–28 2007.

A delegation of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy, led by ITER Council member, deputy head of Rosatom Ivan Kamenskikh, is taking part in the meeting. The other members of ITER Council from the Russian Federation are the deputy head of the staff of the Government of the Russian Federation Igor Borovkov, the head of Rosnauka (Federal Science Agency) Sergey Mazurenko and the president of Kurchatov Institute Yevgeny Velikhov.

On Nov 27 the Council elected EU representative Christopher Llewellyn Smith as their chairman and the president of Kurchatov Institute, laureate of Global Energy International Prize, academician Yevgeny Velikhov as vice chairman.

During the meeting the Council is supposed to discuss the proposals of ITER Organization concerning its management structure, personnel, assessment of ITER project resources and cooperation with IAEA and other organizations.