ITER Project Overview
Ned R. Sauthoff
Director, US ITER Project Office22nd Topical Meeting on theTechnology of Fusion Energy [TOFE]
August 22, 2016

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Overview••••Site Construction
Off-site Progress by Members
Engineering and Technology Innovations
Needed Innovations in Fusion TechnologySauthoff | TOFE 2016

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ITER Mission

To demonstrate the scientificand technological feasibility offusion power for peacefulpurposes

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A First for Magnetic Fusion
On November 10, 2012, the French Ministry ofEnvironment published decree 2012-2048 authorizing
construction of the ITER nuclear facility.

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Site Construction

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Site Construction

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Site Construction

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Tokamak Complex

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Tokamak Pit

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Tokamak Pit

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Assembly Hall

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Cryoplant Foundation

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First Plant Components in Tokamak Complex Installed(detritiation tanks)

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Poloidal Field Coil Winding Facility

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Cryostat Workshop

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Assembly and Installation
Contract Awarded June 27, 2016

The contract was announced in Paris during the World Nuclear Exhibition. Photo: ITER Organization

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Off-site Progress by Members

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Manufacturing ProgressChina• Magnet Systems• Power Systems• Blanket• Fuel Cycle• Diagnostics

Poloidal field coil #6 tooling is complete and is beingcommissioned at ASIPP Hefei, China. Photo: ITER China

First of three power transformers for the pulsed electrical
network. Delivery is underway. Photo: ITER China

Internal components of a cryostat feeder prototype.

Correction coil at ASIPP Hefei, China.

Photo: ITER China

Photo: ITER China

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Manufacturing ProgressEurope• Buildings• Magnet Systems• Heating & Current
Drive Systems• Vacuum Vessel• Divertor• Blanket
The first toroidal field coil winding pack was completed inApril. Photo: F4E

Inspection of the liquid helium tank inner vessel for the ITER
cryoplant. Photo: F4E• Power Systems• Fuel Cycle• Tritium Plant• Cryoplant• Diagnostics• Radioactive
Materials

Girders are in place in the assembly hall to support fourcrane beams. Photo: F4E

Neutral beam test facility. Photo: F4E

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Manufacturing ProgressIndia• Cryostat• CryogenicSystems• Heating & Current
Drive Systems• Cooling Water
SystemWelding of cryostat components will begin thissummer. Photo: ITER Organization

Trial assembly of the cryostat base section tier-2 sectors prior toshipping. Photo: IN DA• Vacuum Vessel• Diagnostics

Diagnostic neutral beam vacuumvessel. Photo: IN DA

A cold test was successfully completed on a prototype cryoline.
Photo: IN DA

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Manufacturing ProgressJapan• Magnet Systems• Heating & Current
Drive Systems• Remote Handling
Series production of central solenoid conductor
continues. 19 conductors have already beendelivered to the US. Photo: JA DA• Divertor
A segment of the toroidal field coil structures
inboard sub-assembly. Photo: JA DA• Tritium Plant• Diagnostics

Toroidal field coil heat treatment. Photo: JA DA

Completed TF Case inner leg section MHI,
Japan. Photo: JA DA

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Manufacturing Progress

Korea• Vacuum Vessel• Blanket• Power Systems• Magnet Systems• Thermal Shield• Assembly Tooling
Inner shell assembly of a lower port stub extension for thevacuum vessel. Photo: KO DAPort stub of vacuum vessel.
Photo: KO DA• Tritium Plant• Diagnostics

First correction coil converter under testing.
Thermal shield factory. Photo: KO DA

Photo: KO DA

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Manufacturing ProgressRussia• Power Systems• Magnet Systems• Blanket• Divertor
Winding of first double pancake for poloidal field coil #1
inside the clean room. Photo: ITER RF

Hydraulic tests of divertor neutron flux monitor body
prototype at Budker Institute. Photo: ITER RF• Vacuum Vessel• Diagnostics• Heating & Current
Drive Systems

Fabrication and qualification tests of PF1 winding packstack sample was successfully completed. Photo: ITER RFCalibration stand for the neutral particles analyzer
diagnostic system. Photo: ITER RF
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Manufacturing ProgressUS• Cooling WaterSystem• Magnet Systems• Diagnostics• Heating & Current
Drive Systems
The first central solenoid module completed winding inApril 2016. Photo: GA

Module tooling stations are in place and being commissioned,including the heat treatment furnace shown here. Photo: GA• Fuel Cycle• Tritium Plant• Power Systems

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

US will complete toroidal field coil conductor
fabrication in 2017. Photo: US ITER

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ITER Council-17 defined 29 milestones for 2016-2017
12 have already been achieved
Cryostat Base
Section delivered toIN-DA Workshop at
ITER Site (India)

Installation ofWater Detritiation
System tanks inTritium building(Europe)Start of B1 civil
works inTokamakbuilding(Europe)Completion ofFabrication of all
Toroidal Field
Conductors fromRussia, Chinaand Japan

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ITER Council-17 defined 29 milestones for 2016-2017
12 have already been achieved
Completion of firstEU Toroidal Field
Coil winding pack(Europe)

Completion ofCentral Solenoid
Module 1 Winding(US)Completion ofperformance tests
for tungsten
Divertor Outer
Vertical Target(Japan)

Completion of 4th(of 9) Toroidal
Field Coilconductor unit
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Project Schedule (quoted from the Press Release)• At the June 15-16 2016 ITER Council meeting “the ITER Council
endorsed the updated Integrated Schedule for the ITER Project,which identifies the date of First Plasma as December 2025.”– “Members now have all the elements needed to go through their domestic
processes of obtaining approval for the Resource-Loaded IntegratedSchedule.”• “The Council … charged the ITER Organization with leading theeffort to extend the updated Resource-Loaded Integrated Schedulethrough Deuterium-Tritium Operation, with sufficient detail to enable
the Council to adopt an updated project baseline at its next meetingin November.”
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Engineering and Technology Innovations

Cleaning techniques are being
developed for ITER first mirrors
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Unprecedented Production of Superconductors

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Magnet Extremes:
Toroidal Field Coils

Toroidal field coil structure fabrication at Futami Works (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)
in Japan. Pictured, an inboard structure.

View of Europe’s first winding pack, the inner-core of a Toroidal Fieldcoil, which will magnetically confine ITER’s plasma. ASG Facilities,February 2106. F4E ©

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High Power Gyrotrons

Gyrotron prototype developed by RF DA

Gyrotron prototype
developed by JA DA
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Pellet Fueling and ELM Pacing
Twin screw pellet extruder
developed at ORNL.

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

Dual nozzle prototype
at ORNL.

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World’s Largest Cryogenic Plant

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Remote Handling

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Key Elements for Fusion Energy Development
Plasma Dynamics

Confinement, Stability/Transients, Energetic Particles,
Diagnostics, Computational Simulation

Power Handling

Plasma Configuration and Behavior,
Plasma-Material Interaction

Magnets

Low- and High-Temperature Superconductors

Heating & Current Drive Ion Cyclotron, Electron Cyclotron, Neutral Beam, …
Structural Materials

Neutron Resistance, High Temperature

Fuel Cycle

Injection, Pumping; Tritium Breeding, Extraction

Systems

Safety and Licensing, Systems Engineering,
Simulation, Project Integration and Management
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