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Principality of Monaco Supports ITER Fellowships

March 6, 2010

The Principality of Monaco is providing 5.5 million Euros to the ITER project over 10 years to support five Postdoctoral Fellowships every two years and a bi-annual International Conference on ITER-related research. The first of these conferences is scheduled to be held in Monaco in October 2010. Recently, Prince Albert II of Monaco, arriving by helicopter, visited the ITER site and met with both ITER management and the first five Fellows.

In an address to the Fellows and ITER staff, the Prince said that the ITER project "opens vast prospects for future generations." He said, "The project quite naturally attracted my attention and that of the Monegasque Government, since it should ultimately open the way for energy from abundant resources, equitably distributed over the entire planet."