# Presentation: 950694

## Status of theITER ProjectNorbert HoltkampPDDG NomineeSeptember 11, 2006

- Norbert Holtkamp, Cycle de Formation Supérieure 2006

## Short Bio

**Norbert Holtkamp**
***Born Nov. 23, 1961***
***Studied Physics in Berlin, Darmstadt and SLAC ('82-'88,'89-'91,'91); PhD at TU Darmstadt 1990.***
***DESY '92-'98***
***FERMI National Accelerator Lab, '98-'00 ***
***Oak Ridge National Lab, Jan '01- Aug ‘06***
***Married, two children (15, 18)***

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## The Spallation Neutron Source

**The Spallation Neutron Source**

- SNS is funded through DOE-BES and has a Baseline Cost of 1.4 B$
- SC linac
- Single ring ready for 1.3 GeV
- One target station
- The peak neutron flux will be ~20–100x ILL
- SNS had first beam on April 28 and began user operation right after.

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## Content

- ITER International Organisation (IO)
- Procurement Sharing
- Staffing
- Project Schedule
- Relationship between IO and Domestic agencies (DAs)
- Design Review
- Licensing
- Summary

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## The Mission

**Demonstrate up to steady state fusion power production****.**
**Plasma makes 10x more power than needed to run it.**
**Study and optimise plasma behaviour****.**
**Have dimensions comparable to a power station.**
**Produce about 500 MW of fusion power****.**
**Demonstrate or develop all the new technologies required for fusion power stations, except materials endurance.**
**Require go through licensing and construction****.**
**Operate for about 20 years.**
**Cost about ****€****5bn to construct (over 9 years) and ****€****5bn to operate (about 20 years) and decommission.**

- The ITER building

- Cadarache Site

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**Notes:**
THE objectives set out for ITER are basically two:
ONE: to obtain and study a plasma where the alfa particle heating is dominating all other forms of heating.
 ITER will operate with a value of capital Q greater than 10. 
The fusion power in ITER will be about 500MW, the input power about 50MW.

And TWO: it has  to integrate the technology required for future use of fusion as an energy source

## What is ITER Today?

- ITER (“the way” in Latin) is the essential next step in the development of fusion.
- Objective -  to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power.
- The world’s biggest fusion energy research project.
- An international collaboration.

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**Notes:**
First let me answer some freqently asked questions
Q1,What is ITER ?
When the name  was chosen ....ITER was intended to be an acronym  for International ..thermonuclear.. Experimental reactor, although this describes quite accurately what we do , another meaning of this word was preferred, in latin ITER means the  WAY; and indeed ITER is  an important step in the development of fusion energy. UIts objective is the demonstration of  the feasibility of using the fusion energy for peaceful purposes. Scientific and technological demonstration of the possibility to use fusionn for peaceful purpsoes
Certainly ITER is an experiment
And it is truly INTERNATIONAL, ITER has been a long dream for the scientists in fusion and it is becoming reality. The site to build it is  in Cadarache IN SOUTH FRANCE

## Why is Fusion important to us?

- Features
- Virtually inexhaustible
- No CO2 emissions
- High energy density fuel
**1 gram of fully reacted Deuterium-Tritium = 26000 kW·hr of electricity (~10 Tonnes of Coal !!)**
- Inherently Safe Controllability
**low fuel inventory, ease of burn termination, self-limiting power level**
**No chain reaction to control**
**low power and energy densities, large heat transfer surfaces and heat sinks**
- Issues
- Fusion reaction is difficult to start and maintain
**High temperatures (Millions of degrees) in a pure environment are required**
- Technically complex & LARGE** devices are required**

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**Notes:**
And then Q3. Why fusion is important to us?
Fusion can significantly contribute to the future long term energy needs of our planet,  because of  some interesting features: 
-the fuel  is virtually inexhaustible (in a power reactor one need only deuterium that is extracted from water and Lithium that is used to generate Tritium).
-there is no CO2 emissions.
-And not withstanding the extremely high energy density of the fuel, it is inherently safe :  the reaction can be terminated easily ,
There is no risk of runaway of the reaction because of low fuel inventory,  there is no after heat  to be removed after the reaction is over, there is  no long lasting radioactive waste. 
But, what causes fusion to be so safe, is also what makes it also so difficult : large and complex devices  are needed to reach the condition for nuclear fusion

## The Tokamak

- in a toroidal configuration plasma particles are lost to the vessel walls by relatively slow diffusion across the field lines.
- Magnetic forces = plasma pressure (jx**B**=****P)

- Confinement: combination of an externally imposed toroidal field + poloidal field from plasma current.

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**Notes:**
Then the question number 4, how we can achieve fusin on earth,..
Several methods have been proposed and still being pursdued b researchers. Those which work are either the inertial confinement, (in which  e mixture of D and T is dynamically compressed and heated by external means (for istance lasers, or particle beams or as in the H bonb by a nuclear fission explosion, 
The other  way is to use magnetic filed to confine a fully ionised plasma. And since this 
magnetic confinement is of no interest for the production of weapons, it soon became an area  of intense scientific collaboration among western and soviet block scientists. In the 60 russian scientists invented a toroidal configuration  called   The tokamak
the relatively strong toroidal field helps for the plasma stabilisation; The tokamak showed a very good energy confinement, that as we will see is an important feature.
ITER in fact is  the last of a large family of tokamak devices

## The Genealogy of ITER 

- Courtesy: S. Chiocchio

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**Notes:**
this chart shows  Most of them . Thesize and shpae of the plasma cross section are shown against the time they went in opewrations.
Many are still operating, and many will continue to operate side by side to ITER to complement its operational programme.
The largest in operations is JET at Culham) 

It is also interesting to note that ITER incorporates all the successfull developments of tokamaks:
It has an elongated (D-shaped) cross-section
 It has a divertor
 It has superconducting coils
 it will operate for 30000 discharges with DT

## Slide 10

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**Notes:**
today The largest tokamak in the world is JET, in Culham. In England
The jet design was completed in 1975 and  went into operation about 9 years later.....
At the time the of the jet design proposal the largest tokamaks facilities had a typical major radius of about 1m with a typical plasma current of few hundred kiloamperes. 
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JET has a major radius of 3m with a plasma current of 4-5MA.  
So The jump to JET was remarkable. 
... ITER represents a jump in size from JET of about a factor of 2.

## Fusion Power Production

- Experiments in JET and TFTR have initiated the study of DT plasmas with significant fusion power: best JET results correspond to a fusion power production of 16MW
- Q, amount of power  generated by the fusion energy divided by the power provided by external heating
- In the JET shot   a-particle heating amounted to ~15% of the input power to the plasma (Q~0.6)

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**Notes:**
As I have said, we should also to the capability to produce fusion power.
tokamaks have already produced some fusion power by DT reactions...
Already in 91 JET using a mixture of 10% T 90 % Deuterium produced 1.7 MW of fusion power.
In 1994 TFTR, in Princeton, with a 50-50 mixture produce 11 MW 
and in 1997 JET reached 16MW,. ...
JET and TFTR are the only two machines which started to use, in a few shots, the most reactive mixture of Deuterium and Tritium.
All other tokamaks have run experiments only with hydrogen or deuterium to avoid the inconvenience of significant neutron production and consequent activation. ... 
In the JET case the fusion power produced was about 0.6 of the power provided to the plasma by external source. And one has to consider than only 175th of the fusion power is avialble for plasma heating as 4/5th of is carried by energetic neutron that will escape from the plasma. 
So, against this background ITER was conceived
AND As it has happened for high energy physics, the size of the next step is such so to call for an efficient concentration of resources thtough an international collaborations.

## ITER  Collaboration

- For its size and cost and the involvement of virtually all the most developed countries, representing over half of  today world’s population ITER will become a  new reference term for big science projects.
- The ITER project is one of the world’s biggest scientific collaboration.

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## The core of ITER 

**The core of ITER**** **

- Major plasma radius 6.2 m
- Plasma Volume: 840 m3
- Plasma Current: 15 MA
- Typical Density: 1020 m-3
- Typical Temperature: 20 keV
- Fusion Power: 500 MW

**Machine mass: 23350 t (****cryostat + VV + magnets)**
- - shielding, divertor and manifolds: 7945 t + 1060 port plugs
- - magnet systems: 10150 t; cryostat:  820 t

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## Key Technology Projects Completed 

- Cost ~ 600 M$
** **

- Key Technology Projects Completed
- In The Design Phase Largely Ending 2001

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**Notes:**
A lot of R&D has also been done on the manufacturing of these components...during the EDA

## Procurement Sharing

- Example for the Procurement Sharing Agreements

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## The ITER site

- Will cover an area of about 60 ha
- Large buildings up to 170  m long
- Large number of systems** **

- Tokamak building

- Tritium building

- Cryoplant buildings

- Magnet power
- convertors buildings

- Hot
- cell

- Cooling towers

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**Notes:**

ITER will cover an area of about 60 ha.
The core of the machine is located in a large building on a seiimically isolated basemat, this building has a foot print of 110 by 75 m
Around it the systems required for the machine operations are located such as the Tritium plant building, the Cryoplant and cryocompressors buildings,
The magnet power conversion buildings, the hot cell and the heat sink

## From ITER to the reactor

| Parameter | ITER | A | B | C | D |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Unit Size (GWe) | - | 1.55 | 1.33 | 1.45 | 1.53 |
| Fusion Power (GW) | 0.5 | 5.00 | 3.60 | 3.41 | 2.53 |
| Major Radius (m) | 6.2 | 9.55 | 8.6 | 7.5 | 6.1 |
| Net efficiency | - | 0.31/0.33 | 0.36 | 0.42 | 0.60 |
| Plasma Current (MA) | 15 | 30.5 | 28.0 | 20.1 | 14.1 |
| Bootstrap Fraction | 0.15 | 0.45 | 0.43 | 0.63 | 0.76 |
| Padd (MW) | 73 | 246 | 270 | 112 | 71 |
| Divertor Peak load (MWm-2) | 15 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 5 |
| Av. neutron wall load (MWm-2) | 0.8 | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.2 | 2.4 |

- ITER

**From ITER to the reactor**

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## Status of the ITER Organisation

- Presently there are still three JWS: IPP-Munich, JAEA-Naka and CEA Cadarache
- Worksites will be closed by the end of the year.
- People already transitioning per many to Cadarache on a interim basis with the intend to become employees as soon as possible.
- Final ITER agreement underway:
- Agreement accepted by negotiators April 1st.
- Documents were initialed May 21st.
- Documents are to be signed on Nov 21st.
- After that ITER should become an (interim) legal entity and should execute all function of a legal body.

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## ITER Organisation

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## The Scope, the Schedule and the Cost of ITER

- The Scope: Is clear.
- The Schedule: Begin construction in 2007 and have first plasma In 2016.
- The Cost: 3.578 kIUA (~5.000 M€)
-           +   80 kIUA R&D
-           + 188 kIUA Operation/year
-           + 281 kIUA for deactivation
-           + 530 kIUA for decommissioning

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## The International Organisation as a Legal Entity

_**What do we (IO) need to do:**_
- Staff regulations
- Draft document finalisation proposals to be made to Interim Council (IC).
- Employment conditions to be clarified.
- Salary calculation to be finalised (pensions, etc)
- Project Resource Management Rules
- Draft document finalisation proposals to be made to IC.
- Financial regulations and procedures to be written.
- Budget for 2007 to be presented within these rules.
- Site support agreement
- Details to be developed and agreed upon between IO and Host
- Headquarters agreement
- Details to be developed and agreed upon between IO and French government
_**What do the parties have to do:**_
- Proposals to be agreed directly after signature on November 21, 2006.  very important step for the organisation.
- Put a provisional agreement in place before final ratification next summer.

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## Technical Work Plan

- Site adaptation
- Take into account site specific conditions and regulations; site preparation work to start beginning of 2007.
- Licensing application
- Preliminary Safety Report 2006/2007; license application end 2007, public enquiry mid 2008. Public debate is officially concluded.
- Design review
- Modality of Design review was agreed upon at PT Leaders meeting prior to IPC-9.
- Progress report meeting planned towards end of this year
- Long lead procurements
- Technical specifications to be prepared for superconducting coils, vacuum vessel and tokamak complex.
- Agreements need to be adjusted for procurement arrangements
- Development of consortia to resolve some of the complicated interfaces between parties where procurement sharing has created difficulties for an integrated approach.

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## Near Term Technical Targets

- Technical:
- Clearing of the construction site and preparation for road and utility connections.
- Call for tenders of superconducting strands through Domestic Agencies (by end 2006).
- Technical specifications for call for tenders for fabrication of vacuum vessel, superconducting coils, building & excavation design.
- Completion of Preliminary Safety Report (submission end 2007).
- Development of a consistent IPS and Procurement schedule

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## Licensing

- Is on the critical path of the project to start construction.
- An English version of the draft preliminary safety report (RPrS) has been provided by the European Participant Team and is under review. Extensive work with a strong support of the EUPT/Host is needed to submit RPrS by the end of 2007.
- New European regulations for pressurized equipment could significantly affect the design and procurement. Support by experts with the knowledge of technical and administrative practice in construction is urgently needed for clarification of the implementation requirements. These issues is being addressed by an International Codes & Standard Working Group during autumn.

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## General Procedure

- 	General procedure for the multiparty procurements:
- Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) defines the general approach on how the procurement sharing amongst Parties could be adjusted to simplify the interfaces, identify the clear responsibility, and minimize the project risks and likely reduce cost for participating parties.
- These MoUs have to be developed as soon as possible in order to prepare technical specifications efficiently by the IT/IO and responsible PT(s)/DA(s);
- MoU will have to be accepted by Leaders Meeting and then endorsed by the IPC/IC.
- The actual  arrangement is defined in a Procurement Arrangement or otherwise in accordance with the procedure defined in “Common Understandings on ITER management and Procurement” agreed at N level.

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## Integrated Project Schedule

**2005**

**2006**

**2007**

**2008**

**2009**

**2010**

**2011**

**2012**

**2013**

**2014**

**2015**

**ITER IO**

**LICENSE TO CONSTRUCT**

**TOKAMAK ASSEMBLY STARTS**

**FIRST**** ****PLASMA**

**Bid**

**Contract**

**EXCAVATE**

**TOKAMAK BUILDING**

**OTHER BUILDINGS**

**TOKAMAK ASSEMBLY**

**COMMISSIONING**

**MAGNET**

**VESSEL**

**Bid**

**Vendor’s Design**

**Bid**

**Install**
**cryostat**

**First sector**

**Complete VV**

**Complete **
**blanket/divertor**

**PFC**

**Install CS**

**First sector**

**Last sector**

**Last CS**

**Last TFC**

**CS**

**PFC**

**TFC**

**fabrication start**

**Contract**

**Contract**

**2016**

**Construction License Process**

**Integrated Project Schedule**

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**Notes:**
The construction phase will last about 10 years from the construction agreement to the first plasma. 
As I just said, we expect that the sometime in mid 2006 the agreement will be signed and after ratification by some parties it will enter into force in early 2007. Only then the ITER International Organisation will formally exist.
In the meantime however we shall have to work very hard to prepare for those items in the critical path. Firstly we shall have to complete the nuclear licensing process, and there we expect to obtain a license sometime in early 2008.
Moreover we shall have to proceed to prepare as much as possible the procurement of long-lead items such as the construction of the main buildings as well as the construction of the vacuum vessel and the magnet.

## Staffing Plan

**Boundary condition**
- Respect the budget envelope agreed in JIA coming still from the FDR: 477 k IUA (=~1800 PPY and ~2760 SPY) during the construction period (9 years).
- Review the staffing requirement in a few years and after the design review when the resource-loaded schedule is developed.
- Impact since 2001:
- 7 Parties not 3
- Many split procurements
- Some of the R&D from the FDR is not finished
- Worldwide: ~ 3000-4000 people working on ITER

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## Team Build-up

- Truly International Organization with the need of a balanced employment between parties across the organisation.
- Short term: Smooth transition to new Organization
- Fill the organisational structure from the top and the bottom.
- Major influx of staff to Cadarache JWS from Garching and Naka JWSs in September, and remainder in December.
- Around 25 new members for the “urgent” positions to join Cadarache JWS by September-December.
- Recruitment by IO also of supporting staff to start December 1st.
- 150 professional staff by end 2007.
- Long term: Ensure a smooth transition of staff across different phases of the project: DESIGN-CONSTRUCTION-INSTALLATION-COMMISSIONING-OPERATION
- ITER within the collaboration has access to 70% of the world population. We need to find the best and the brightest within this pool.

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## Staff Ramp Up Projection

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## Budget Profile

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## General Roles & Responsibilities for Construction

- ITER IO
- Planning/Design
- Integration  / QA  / Safety / Licensing / Schedule
- Installation
- Testing + Commissioning
- Operation
- Parties – DA
- Detailing / Designing
- Procuring
- Delivering
- Support installation
- IO and all parties plus Fusion community work together on Exploitation of ITER. ITER IO coordinates and participates in the program (e.g.: TBM).

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## The Relationship of the International Team and the Domestic Agency

- The IO
- Spends time in the DA and surveys progress with suppliers.
- Can agree field changes within cost and schedule contingency without consulting IO.
- Controls the design.
- Integrates the subsystems.
- Provides the tools and the manpower to manage the project.
- Installs and tests the subsystems.
- Operates ITER.
- The Domestic Agency
- Delivers cost, schedule and performance information to the FTL.
- Provides FTL and staff with an office.
- Executes the design, procurement and tests.
- The FTL
- The FTL submits cost, schedule and performance info each month to the project office (PO).
- Reports all other necessary and useful information to the PO or the leadership team.
- Communicates any schedule variance, scope changes, scope variances or potential issues.
- Guided by the PO the FTL develops a risk matrix in which potential threats are tracked. Estimates on potential cost or schedule variances are given to the PO as well as mitigation plans and strategies that the FTL develops in close collaboration with the DA.
- Ensures all relevant documents are transmitted to the DA from the ITER Organisation.
- Ensures consistency of  procurement packages, designs prepared by the DA, and  ITER specifications.
- Uses staff from the existing technical divisions in the ITER Organization, preferably those ultimately responsible for the installation, testing and operation of the component.

- PDDG
- PO

- DA

- FTLQAPM

- Tech.
- Eng.

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## The Design Review: Status

- Today different procurement packages are defined to a different extent.
- The scope of the ITER design is sufficiently defined so that
- Their value is / can be estimated
- Presently a review process is in place limited largely to the International team.
- The foreseen design review in this context is a continuous process over the next one to two years involving all parties.
- Goal is to have a 2007 baseline late spring

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## Goal and Tools

- Goal: resolve major presently open design questions in order to be able to _prepare the procurement packages for the WBS elements._
- Procurement schedule that supports the IPS will drive the deadlines for the different WG within the Design review.
- Execution of the Design Review is done through the existing system of “Issue Cards”:
- Issue cards can be submitted by individuals and/or organizations.
- Using a prioritized list of actions, an integration task force will develop a risk assessment that will guide the order of prioritized items. Management will determine appropriateness of priority.
- “Issue Cards” and the “Risk Management Strategy” together with the “Procurement Schedule” and the “Design Review Procedure” will order the sequence of the technical system to be addressed.
- The issue cards and their rate of completion will provide a management tool to determine the timely completion of the review.

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## The General Charge for the Design Review

- Identify all systems that are not designed yet or are still in the conceptual stage.
- Starting from the 2001 design report, identify all systems that have integration or technical issues which need to or should be resolved before a procurement specification can be assembled. _Identify the issues and a path forward for resolution._
- Identify areas, concepts and technical designs where recent R&D results indicate a possible performance problem or an unacceptably high manufacturing cost. _Identify issues and path for resolution._
- Identify areas, concepts and technical designs in which recent R&D results would benefit the design technically, schedule or cost-wise.
- Prioritize open issues with respect to scope, schedule and cost impact and identify and implement solutions in the order of priority. The integration group will provide a risk assessment document that will guide the risk assessment in terms of scope, schedule and cost, and assign a priority number.

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## Design Change Integration

- Overall budget is fixed -> changes which lead to cost increases, work or designs identified as not finished or any other task that requires budget and was not foreseen before,  need to be _offset:_
- Quantify the monetary, scope or schedule impact of the change, as well as the man-hours needed for integration and who is supposed to provide them.
- Clarify the impact on other WBS elements as precisely as possible.
- Clarify whether the cost increase is a result of changes/conditions imposed by a Party.
- Design Change Proposals are to be accompanied by:
- proposed _offsets in kind_ to keep the Total Project Cost (TPC) constant.
- proposed _offsets in terms of scope_ (scope increase in one WBS versus scope decrease in another).
- proposed offset using contingency.
- flagging of imposed changes and information management in order to contact the Party.

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## The Technical Advisory Group 

- Reports to the DG and PDDG.
- Members appointed by the DG for  3 year term + 3 year extension.
- Members supposed to accompany the design review process and the build up of the IO.
- Advice will cover technical, managerial and organizational aspects to help the DG and PDDG to successfully manage the project.
- Membership is12-15 and will be recruited from the International science community.
- The reports will be public.
- Recommendations will be tracked and reported on in subsequent reviews.
- At least 2 meetings per year.

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## Charge for the Design Progress Review Dec. 

- Is the physics baseline established and documented well enough? Is the technical baseline consistent with the physics requirements?
- Is the manpower sufficient for this stage of the project? Is the distribution of manpower appropriate?
- Is the overall schedule consistent and sufficiently well established for this stage of the project? Is there sufficient schedule contingency?
- Is the organization of ITER maturing and developing fast enough to be able to launch into construction in the very near future. Which parts of the organization should be improved and how in order to support the construction project?
- Is the civil construction on track for construction start in 2009?
- Are the business systems in place to handle scope, schedule and cost of the ITER construction project?
- Are the safety and civil construction aspects properly addressed for this stage of the project? Where are the highest vulnerabilities?
- Is the design review process appropriate to address all technical, scope, schedule and cost aspects of the project? How can it be improved?
- All other general recommendations

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## The Design Progress Review, Dec 12-15

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## Participation in ITER

- Attract the best qualified people to the IO - send us your CV (see ITER web site).
- Share responsibility for success with the Domestic Agencies by ensuring joint aim is mutual success on time and within budget.
- Involve all Parties’ fusion researchers actively in preparing for ITER operation, as well as in developing diagnostics, heating and current drive systems, and test blanket modules.
- Encourage researcher’s ownership of the ITER design by participation in the design finalisation process through the design review.

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## Role of ITER IO Outside of Construction

- Test Blanket Modules
- IPC-8 in Goa asked for establishment of Ad hoc group on TBM programme.
- Terms of reference were prepared by DGN/ITER.
- Members are nominated.
- First meetings have occurred.
- All parties confirmed interest to participate in TBM testing program, which is outside of ITER construction.
- Agreed to prepare qualification programs
- Cooperate to finalization of optimized test program for 6 TBM’s / 3 ports.
- Each party prepares proposal with:
- clarification of Party-ITER mutual obligations.

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## Conclusions

- The ITER Organisation is imminent and final preparations are underway to make it effective at the earliest opportunity.
- The Parties are aware of their budget and staffing obligations and are making progress in satisfying them.
- The project team is coming together in Cadarache.
- The design review has begun in September which will strengthen involvement of all stakeholders, DAs and project team members.

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## Summary

- ITER organisation is still in a transitional phase.
- Very important to establish Legal entity as soon as possible to effectively execute all task of a construction project.
- Recruiting and strengthening the team is a prime concern.
- Holding cost and schedule is important to gain trust with the parties and thrust for the project.
- Executing the Design Review effectively to establish new baseline and involve world community is necessary
- A whole bunch of luck will be required too...

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