The ITER Project
Moving forward at full speed

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ITER in perspective
Mission: To demonstrate the scientificand technological feasibility of large scalefusion power
ITER is the only magnetic fusion device
under construction to produce a burning
plasma.
Input (heating) 50 MW  Output 500 MW

Global Response
to a
Global Challenge

China EU India Japan Korea Russia USA
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Who manufactures what?
The ITER Members share all intellectual property
CryostatFeeders (31)Thermal shield
Toroidal Field coils (18)
Vacuum vessel

Poloidal field coils(6)

Correction coils (18)Central solenoid (6)Blanketmodules
Divertor

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The integration challenge
BLANKET
MODULES

Vacuum Vessel
MANIFOLD

DIVERTOR

INTERNAL COILSINTERFACES

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2015: the Action Plan
Set clear priorities and timeline for reform Reorganized and integrated the ITER Central
Team with Domestic Agencies: Clear decision processes and accountability DG/DDG, Executive Project Board, Reserve
Fund, Project Teams Finalized ITER critical component design Promoted an organization-wide nuclear project
culture Conducted comprehensive integrated bottomup review of all activities, systems, structures,and components to build the ITER machine Identified need for a revised resource-loaded
schedule for timely, cost-effective construction
and operation through start of D-T plasma.

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Baseline Schedule Development
2015: IO and DAs worked intensively to develop a revised resourceloaded baseline schedule September 2015: IO and DAs held Integrated Review Meeting toreview proposed schedule and IO resource estimates November 2015: project management proposed to ITER Council:
 ‘Best technically achievable’ schedule First Plasma in December 2025 and DT Operation in late 2032

 Council accepted proposal as a basis for managing project oversubsequent 2 years:
 Monitored via achievement of agreed major milestones

 Requested independent review of schedule to establish viability
 Appointed Independent Council Review Group of experts nominated by
Members to assess schedule reliability and credibility

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2016: Performance & Follow-throughSchedule Control
 Main issue at present relates to
Vacuum Vessel delivery
 Back transfer of 2 VV sectors fromEU to IO with support of KODA
 Reconfigure VV Assembly
sequence to maintain FP schedule Technical measures to support
schedule/ reduce risk
 Accelerate interface freeze
 VVPSS redesign
From July 2016 Progress Report
Blue – completed
Green - on schedule
From July
2016 Progress
ReportYellow– delays
anticipated
Red – delayed, mitigation needed Establish Nuclear Integration Unit
to coordinate nuclear analysis
 Finalize Tokamak Complex Floor
Response Spectra

Strong performance: meeting demands of external validation while maintaining
construction and manufacturing at full pace in accordance with agreed milestones
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April 2016: intensive, in-depth review
by independent expert group declares:•“…substantial improvement inproject performance…”•“…high degree of motivation…

•“…considerable progress during
the past 12 months…”•“…sequence and duration of
future activities have been fully
and logically mapped in the
resource-loaded schedule…”•“…resource estimate is
generally complete […] andprovides a credible estimate ofcost and human resources…”

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th
18 ITER Council endorses

Updated Schedule
First Plasma in December 2025
The updated Schedule is challenging
but technically achievable.
It represents the best technicallyachievable path forward to First
Plasma.

The 18th ITER Council,
chaired by Korea’s Won
Namkung, convened at ITER
Headquarters in Saint-Paullez-Durance on 15-16 June
2016.

The successful completion of all
project milestones to date, on or aheadof schedule, is a positive indicator of
the collective capacity of the ITER
Organization and the Domestic
Agencies to continue to deliver on the
updated Schedule.

Members now have all the elements
needed to go through their domestic
processes of obtaining approval for
the Resource-Loaded Integrated
Schedule as a basis for 2016 Baseline

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Baseline Schedule: Staged Approach
Developed in parallel with ICRG assessment to incorporate resource
constraints of Members

 4-stage approach foresees several phases of operation from FP to DT
 Staged upgrades of ITER facility following FP in December 2025
 First DT operations phase scheduled for December 2035

 April 2016: ICRG recommended to Extraordinary Council that Staged
Approach provides most appropriate framework for revised schedule June 2016: ITER Council approved ad referendum schedule to First
Plasma in December 2025
 Council requested DG to develop revised overall schedule and IO resource
estimate to DT Commissioning within framework of Staged Approach Updated Baseline schedule and IO resource estimate to FP
 Indicative schedule and cost baseline from 2026 to initial DT operations

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Staged Approach: Baseline Schedule
Extensive interactions among IO and DAs to resolve outstanding
issues to finalize revised baseline schedule proposal
 Schedule and IO resource estimate to First Plasma consistent withMembers’ budget constraints
 DG proposed resolution of 4-stage/3-stage approach in favor of 4-stage:
consistent with Members’ financial and technical constraints

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Key ITER Physics R&D
Extensive Physics R&D programme in collaboration with international
fusion community – addresses remaining design issues andpreparation for Operations
 Effective disruption management essential to reliable operation
 Addressing disruption detection, avoidance and mitigation
 International collaboration on development of shattered pellet injector
concept for disruption mitigation (IO/ USIPO/ DIII-D/ JET) ELM control by magnetic perturbations, including spectral requirements
and control of divertor heat loads
 Understanding impact of fuel and impurity transport on plasma
performance in ITER
 Divertor and PWI studies: Experimental and simulation studies to support specification of divertor
monoblock shaping
 Dust production, tritium retention and tritium removal
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Coordinating ITER Physics R&D
 Emphasis on mobilization of fusion
community: Develop key R&D activities Support Research Plan
development
 Prepare for efficient operation
 Mechanisms to integrate fusion
community into ITER programme: International Tokamak Physics
Activity (ITPA)
 IEA TCP on Co-operation on
Tokamak Programmes (CTP)

First ITER Scientist Fellows’ Workshop
ITER HQ, September 2016

 MoUs with fusion facilities andacademic institutions
 ITER Scientist Fellows’ Network

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Tokamak Complex

The 400,000-ton Tokamak Complex comprises 3 buildings— Diagnostics (right), Tokamak (centre) and Tritium (left).
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Worksite progress
PF Coil Facility

Cryoplant
Construction underway

400 kV switchyard

Transformers

Storage area 2

Storage area 3
Assembly Hall
Being equipped

Contractors area

Cryostat Workshop
Cleaning facility
Construction underway

Preparatory works

Magnet Conversion Power

Tokamak Complex
Construction underway

Batching plantService Building

Headquarters extension

Construction underway

Radiofrequency Bdg
Preparatory works

Cooling systems

ITER IO Headquarters

Storage area 1

Preparatory works

Control Building(Aerial Photo April 2015)

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Tokamak Complex

Resting on 493 seismic pads, the reinforced concrete “B2” slab bears the 400 000-ton Tokamak Complex.
Concrete casting of the B2 slab was finalized on August 27, 2014. Diagnostic Building (right): B1 level slab andwalls/columns now complete; Tokamak Building (centre): completion of the BioShield wall B2 level. Start of the B1
slab on 26 April 2016, and construction of interior walls/columns is on-going. Tritium Building (left): steel
reinforcement on B1 level.
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Tokamak Complex
First plant components installed (detritiation tanks)

The six water detritiation tanks (four 20 m³ tanks and two 100 m³ tanks) and thedrainage tank are the first plant components installed in the ITER Tokamak Complex.
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Assembly Hall

Before being integrated in the machine, the components will be prepared and preassembled in this 6,000 m2, 60-metre high building. The Assembly Hall is equippedwith a double overhead travelling crane with a total lifting capacity of 1,500 tons.
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Assembly Hall
43 metres above the building’s basemat
the double overhead crane is now installed
On 14 June lifting
operations begin.
Complete with
gear-motors,
wheels, braces,
electrical gear,
etc. , the beam
now weighs 186
tons.
Each pair of
cranes will
have a lifting
capacity of
750 tons.
On 22 June, the 4
beams and 2 of 4
trolleys (100 t.)
are installed.
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Radiofrequency heating

Adjacent to the Assembly Hall , the building that will house the plasma
heating systems (microwave and radio frequency) is being built .
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Cryostat Workshop

The welding operations of the cryostat base (1 250 t.) start
8 september 2016.

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Cryoplant

It will be the largest single-platform cryoplant in theworld. The ITER Cryoplant will distribute liquid helium(-270 °C) and liquid nitrogen (-193 °C) to various
machine components (superconducting magnets,
thermal shield, cryopumps, etc.).

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PF Coil winding facility

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Entering the industrial phasewith highly challenging specifications

Manufacturing ITER components is standing at the cutting edge of technology:• Geometrical tolerances measured in millimetres for steel pieces up to 17 m tall weighing several of• Superconducting power lines cooled to minus 270 degrees Celsius• Plasma facing components to withstand heat flux as large as 20 MW per m2• Cryoplant cooling capacity up to 110 kW at 4.5 K; maximum cumulated liquefaction rate of 12,300 lit• Etc.
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Manufacturing progress
China

Tooling for Poloidal Field coil #6 (the secondsmallest ring-shaped ITER magnet, at 350 tons,
10 m in diameter), is complete and is beingcommissioned at ASIPP in Hefei, China.

The first of three power transformers for thepulsed electrical network. Delivery isunderway.

Magnet Systems, Power Systems, Blanket, Fuel Cycle, Diagnostics

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Manufacturing progress
China

Internal components of a cryostat feeder prototype.

Correction coil at ASIPP in Hefei, China.

Magnet Systems, Power Systems, Blanket, Fuel Cycle, Diagnostics

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Manufacturing progress
Europe

The first toroidal field coil winding pack – the 110-ton
inner core of ITER's D-shaped superconducting TF
Coils – was completed in April.

Inspection of the liquid helium tank inner vessel for
the ITER cryoplant.

Buildings, Magnet Systems, Heating & Current Drive Systems, Vacuum Vessel, Divertor, Blanket,
Power Systems, Fuel Cycle, Tritium Plant, Cryoplant, Diagnostics, Radioactive Materials

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Manufacturing progress
EuropeSPIDER vacuum vessel installed inside bio-shield at
the PRIMA Neutral Beam Test facility in Padova, Italy.

SPIDER TL connected to vacuum vessel electricalbushing.

Buildings, Magnet Systems, Heating & Current Drive Systems, Vacuum Vessel, Divertor, Blanket,
Power Systems, Fuel Cycle, Tritium Plant, Cryoplant, Diagnostics, Radioactive Materials

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Manufacturing progress
India

India is responsible for fabrication and assembly of
the 30x30 meter ITER cryostat. The base plates
were delivered to ITER in December 2015.

The transportation frame/assembly and welding
support for the cryostat has been assembled in the
Cryostat Workshop where welding began in August.

Cryostat, Cryogenic Systems, Heating and Current Drive Systems, Cooling Water System,
Vacuum Vessel, Diagnostics
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Manufacturing progress
India

Diagnostic neutral beam vacuum vessel.

A cold test was successfully completed on a prototype
cryoline.

Cryostat, Cryogenic Systems, Heating and Current Drive Systems, Cooling Water System,
Vacuum Vessel, Diagnostics

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Manufacturing progress
Japan

Connection of segments for the first inboard Toroidal
Field Coil structure (completed in November 2015), asignificant achievement for TF coil procurement.

Toroidal field coil heat treatment.

Magnet Systems, Heating & Current Drive Systems, Remote Handling, Divertor,
Tritium Plant, Diagnostics
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Manufacturing progress
Japan

Series production of central solenoid conductor
continues. 19 conductors have already beendelivered to the US.

In October 2015, the first batch of components forthe neutral beam test facility were shipped to the
PRIMA facility in Italy.

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Tritium Plant, Diagnostics
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Manufacturing progress
Korea

At Hyundai Heavy Industries, where 2 of 9 vacuum
vessel sectors are under construction, welding on
the upper section of the inner shell for Sector #6.

Inner shell assembly of a lower port stub extension
for the vacuum vessel.

Vacuum Vessel, Blanket, Power Systems, Magnet Systems, Thermal Shield,
Assembly Tooling, Tritium Plant, Diagnostics
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Manufacturing progress
Korea

At Sam Hong Machinery in Changwon, fabrication isprogressing on all nine 40° thermal shield sectors.

Welding has begun on parts of the first 800-ton
Sector Sub-Assembly Tool. Korea is designing andmanufacturing 128 purpose-built tools for assembly.

Vacuum Vessel, Blanket, Power Systems, Magnet Systems, Thermal Shield,
Assembly Tooling, Tritium Plant, Diagnostics
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Manufacturing progress
RussiaRussia completes its share of toroidal field
conductor in June 2015, marking the end of a 5year campaign to manufacture 28 production
lengths (more than 120 tons of material).

In December 2014,
specialists at theEfremov Institutesuccessfully tested a
prototype of the fast
discharge resistor
module, designed to
rapidly dischargeenergy stored in thecoils of the ITER
magnetic system.
Tests results
demonstrated full
conformance withITER Organization
technical
requirements.

Power Systems, Magnet Systems, Blanket, Divertor, Vacuum Vessel, Diagnostics,
Heating & Current Drive Systems
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Manufacturing progress
RussiaFabrication and qualification tests of PF1 winding
pack stack sample were successfully completed.

Winding of first double pancake for poloidal field coil #1
inside the clean room.

Power Systems, Magnet Systems, Blanket, Divertor, Vacuum Vessel, Diagnostics,
Heating & Current Drive Systems
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Manufacturing progress
USA

General Atomics is fabricating the 1000-ton Central
Solenoid (CS). In April 2016, winding of the first CS
module was completed.

Module tooling stations are in place and beingcommissioned, including the heat treatment furnace
shown here.

Cooling Water System, Magnet Systems, Diagnostics, Heating & Current Drive
Systems, Fuel Cycle, Tritium Plant, Power Systems
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Manufacturing progress
USA

Steady state electrical network transformers
have been delivered to the ITER site.

US will complete toroidal field coil production in 2017.

Cooling Water System, Magnet Systems, Diagnostics, Heating & Current Drive
Systems, Fuel Cycle, Tritium Plant, Power Systems
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The deliveries succeed one another…

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… to provide door-to-door delivery

14 January 2015:
20 March 2015:
2 April 2015:
20 April 2015:
7 May 2015 :21 May 2015:17 Sept 2015:
10 & 17 Dec. 2015:18 & 25 March 2016:21 April 2016:
10 June 2016

First of four 90-ton transformers procured by the US and manufactured in Korea
Detritiation tank (20 tons), procured by Europe
Detritiation tank (20 tons), procured by Europe
Second of four 90-ton transformers procured by the US and manufactured in Korea
Two 80-ton, 61,000-gallon drain tanks for the tokamak cooling water system, procured by US
Three 90-ton transformers procured by the US and manufactured in Korea
Two drain tanks (79 t.) for the cooling system, one (46 t.) for the neutral beam system
Six 60° segments for tier 1 of the cryostat base by India (photo)
Girder # 1 & 2 (out of 4) for the Assembly Hall gantry crane (Europe)
Girder # 3 & 4 for the Assembly Hall gantry crane (Europe) – pictured
First of three 300-ton PPEN transformer (China)
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CMA contract for assembly
and installation
In June, ITER Organization
signed a 10-year €174 million
contract with the MOMENTUM
joint venture, to manage andcoordinate the assembly andinstallation of the Tokamak
and associated plant systems.

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Engineering innovation: superconductors
200 km, 2,800 tons of superconductors (80% of the total required) have been
manufactured and validated
Six ITER Members—China, Europe, Japan,
Korea, Russia and the United States—havebeen responsible for the production ofcable-in-conduit conductors worth a totalof EUR 610 million.
The eight-year campaign to produce thesuperconductors for ITER’s powerfulmagnet systems is in its final stages.

*Harmonized global standards for
production methods, quality
controls, testing protocols, etc.
*Groundbreaking work in materials
science.
*Largest superconductor
procurement in industrial history.
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Engineering innovation: gyrotrons

Gyrotron prototype developedby RF-DA.
Gyrotron prototype developedby F4E (EU-DA).
Gyrotron prototype developed
by JA-DA.

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Engineering innovation: pellet fueling and
ELM (edge-localized mode) pacing

Dual nozzle prototype
developed at ORNL (Oak Ridge
National Laboratories, USA).

Twin screw pellet
extruder developed
at ORNL.

View of the drive shaft gears and top of
the twin-screw extruder mechanism.

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Engineering innovation: cleaning methods

New cleaning techniques are being
developed for ITER first mirrors.
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Engineering innovation: vacuum systems
8-tonne machined flange of the first
Torus Cryo-pump

Neutral Beam
Injection Cryopump: 8 meters
long, 2.8 meters
high

Torus and Cryostat Cryo-pump (1.8 meter diameter)

The ITER vacuum system will be one of thelargest, most complex vacuum systems everbuilt: the cryostat, at ~ 8500m3; the torus, at~1330 m3; the neutral beam injectors at ~180m3
each; plus lower volume systems.
More than 400 vacuum pumps will employ 10
different technologies.
Final design involved new fabrication methods toreduce cost and manufacturing time of cryopanels and thermal shields within the pumps.

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Engineering innovation: robotics andremote handling

Due to the massive size of the ITER
Tokamak components, as well as theintense neutron flux that will occur
during operations, the ITER machine
has required the development of
cutting-edge robotics and remotehandling tools, which will be used inboth the assembly and operational
phases.

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ITER
A multinational scientific collaboration without equivalent in history

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ITER is moving forward!

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ITER is moving forward!

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ITER is moving forward!

http://www.iter.org
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