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A painful loss for the fusion community: Bernard Bigot has died

Bernard Bigot, 72 years old, passed away.

Director of ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, since 2015, Dr. Bigot was a famous French scientist and well know manager. Before joining ITER, he had served as Chairman at CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission.

Bigot’s death is a great loss for all the international scientific fusion community.