CELEX: 51994PC0053
Language: en
Date: 1994-02-25
Title: Draft COUNCIL DECISION concerning the conclusion, by the Commission, of Protocol 2 to the Agreement among the European Atomic Energy Community, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the United States of America on cooperation in the Engineering Design Activities (EDA) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)

ipOMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                          C0M(94) 53 final
                                                          Brussels, 25.02.1994
                                             Draft
concerning the conclusion, by the Commission, of Protocol 2 to the Agreement among the
European Atomic Energy Community, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian
-ederation, and the Government of the United States of America on cooperation in the
Engineering Design Activities (EDA) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
<ITER).
                               (presented by the Commission)
 ---pagebreak---                      EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
1. The Agreement among the European Atomic Energy Community, the Government
   of Japan, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the
   United States of America ("the Parties") on cooperation in the Engineering Design
   Activities (EDA) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)
   ("the ITER EDA Agreement"), under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy
   Agency (IAEA), concluded among the Parties on 21 July 1992 (as far as the
   Community is concerned, in accordance with a Commission Decision of
                   1
   22 April 1992     following a Council Decision of 6 April 1992), is due to remain in
   force for six years.
   Pursuant to Article 3 of the ITER EDA Agreement, the EDA are implemented by two
   or more protocols, as appropriate, according to the progress of work. Protocol 1 to
   the ITER EDA Agreement ("Protocol 1"), also concluded among the Parties on
   21 July 1992, will terminate upon entry into force of Protocol 2, but not later than
   on 20 March 1994.
2. Pursuant to Section 4 of Protocol 1, a draft Protocol 2 to the ITER EDA Agreement
   ("Protocol 2") and draft accompanying documents have been prepared, taking into
   account the items set out in that provision, and submitted to the ITER Council by
   a Special Working Group established pursuant to Section 1 of Protocol 1. On
   22 April 1993, the ITER Council accepted for submission to the Parties' authorities
   the draft Protocol 2 and draft accompanying documents prepared by the Special
   Working Group for completion of the EDA under Protocol 2, with a view to
   negotiating and concluding Protocol 2 as soon as possible.
          OJ n°L244, 26.08.92, p. 13
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 ---pagebreak--- 3. In its Decision of 10 December 1993 the Council:
   - authorized the Commission to conduct negotiations on Protocol 2 on the basis of
      the draft Protocol 2 and draft accompanying documents referred to under
      point 2 above, it being understood that such draft accompanying documents have
      the purpose of setting out in detail, inter alia, the implementing measures deemed
      necessary by the Parties for jointly completing the activities identified in Article 2
      of the Agreement and that such draft accompanying documents shall be
      complemented by the Outline Design report as approved by the ITER Council and
      by an annex established along the lines set out in Attachment 4 to the Directives
      for the Commission; and
   - stipulated that it is not opportune that a proposal for a decision authorizing the
      signature of Protocol 2 be presented until the Commission, having submitted the
      Outline Design report to the Council of the European Union and the Consultative
      Committee for the Fusion Programme (CCFP) as soon as it is available, to make
      sure that the Outline Design is acceptable, has received the opinion of that Council
      and of the CCFP and the agreement of the ITER Council for the adoption of that
      report as an accompanying document to Protocol 2.
4.  In view of point 3 above:
    - on 19 January T994 in its opinion on the Outline Design report, the CCFP
       recommended that the Community members of the ITER Council support the
       approval by the ITER Council of the Outline Design report, which will become an
      accompanying document to the Protocol 2 package;
   - on 28 January 1994 the ITER Council considered that the Outline Design report
      constitutes an acceptable basis for consideration by the Parties to proceed toward
      the conclusion of Protocol 2; and
   - on 21 February 1994 the Council of the European Union considered that the
      Outline Design report constitutes an acceptable basis for future work which could
      be included as an accompanying document to Protocol 2.
 ---pagebreak--- 5.  The quadripartite negotiations have resulted in the following documents (annexed
    to the enclosed proposal for a Council Decision): the draft Protocol 2 (ANNEX I) and
    the Co-Chairs' Summary of the Negotiation Meeting (28 January 1994) (ANNEX II):
    - the draft Protocol 2 is identical to the one attached to the negotiation Directives;
    - the Co-Chairs' Summary contains, besides the draft Protocol 2 (ATTACHMENT I),
       the Negotiators' Shared Views (ATTACHMENT II) which match the draft
       accompanying documents attached to the negotiation Directives except for the
       following modifications (upon EAEC negotiators' request to comply with the
        Council Directives):
        . a point "EL Monitoring of the ITER EDA" (referred to under point 3 above) has
          been added
        . a point "fL. Outline Design" (referred to under points 3 and 4 above) has been
          added together with the relevant attachment "NSV Attachment 4"
        . NSV Attachment 1 (ITER Detailed Technical Objectives) has been slightly
           reworded
      ( . NSV Attachments 2 and 3 have not been amended)
 6.  It is considered that the Community will have to continue to conduct its contribution
     to the ITER EDA in the context of its overall Next Step R&D activities so as to
     preserve its full capability to proceed towards the construction of a Next Step device
     either in the framework of an international collaborative programme or on its own.
7.   The intended cooperative activities are technically compatible with the guidelines
     relevant to controlled thermonuclear fusion specific objectives laid down in the
     Council political orientation of 22 December 1993 on the draft decision concerning
     a Framework Programme of Community activities in the field of research and training
     for the EAEC (1994-1998) and are financially compatible with the breakdown of the
     amount deemed necessary for Community financial participation in the field of
     controWed thermonuclear fusion in that draft decision.
 ---pagebreak--- 8. Protocol 2 will have to be concluded by the Commission in conformity with the
   second paragraph of Article 101 of the Treaty establishing the EAEC.
9. The Commission proposes that the Council adopt, in application of Article 101
   second paragraph, second phrase, of the Treaty establishing the EAEC, the Council
   Decision attached hereto concerning the conclusion, by the Commission, of
   Protocol 2.
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                                   COUNCIL DECISION
                                of
concerning the conclusion, by the Commission, of Protocol 2 to the Agreement among the
European Atomic Energy Community, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian
Federation, and the Government of the United States of America on cooperation in the
Engineering Design Activities (EDA) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
(ITER).
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community, and in
particular the second paragraph of Article 101 thereof,
Having regard to the draft Decision submitted by the Commission,
Whereas the Commission has, in accordance with the Council Directives of 10 December 1993,
conducted negotiations on Protocol 2 to the Agreement among the European Atomic Energy
Community, the Government of Japan, the Government of the Russian Federation, and the
Government of the United States of America on cooperation in the Engineering Design Activities
for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor,
Whereas the conclusion, by the Commission, of Protocol 2 should be approved;
 HAS DECIDED AS FOLLOWS:
                                           Sole Article
 The conclusion, by the Commission, for and on behalf of the Community, of Protocol 2 to the
Agreement among the European Atomic Energy Community, the Government of Japan, the
Government of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the United States of America on
cooperation in the Engineering Design Activities for the International Thermonuclear Experimental
Reactor is hereby approved.
The text of Protocol 2 is annexed to this Decision, together with the text of the Co-Chairs'
Summary of the Negotiation Meeting.
Done at            ,
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                           The President
 ---pagebreak---                                                                                        ANNEX I
                                     DRAFT       PROTOCOL 2
                                                TO
THE AGREEMENT AMONG THE EUROPEAN ATOMIC ENERGY COMMUNITY, THE GOVERNMENT
OF JAPAN, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA ON COOPERATION IN THE ENGINEERING DESIGN ACTrvrnES FOR
THE BNIERNATIONAL THERMONUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL REACTOR
The European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom)» the Government of Japan, the
Government of the Russian Federation, and the Government of the linked States of America
("the Parties"),
HAVING REGARD to the Agreement on Cooperation in the Engineering Design Activities
(EDA) for as International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), conchided among
the Parties on July 21,1992 ("the Agreement"), and in particular to Article 3 thereof,
HAVING INTTIATED the EDA under Protocol 1 to the Agreement, also conchided among the
Parties on July 21,1992, and having the intent to complete jointly the EDA under Protocol
2,
HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 - Scope
The Parties shall complete jointly the activities identified in Article 2 of the Agreement. These
activities shall be conducted in accordance with detailed technical objectives of ITER adopted
pursuant to the provisions of the Agreement
Section 2 - Special Working Group
A Special Working Group shall be established which, assisted by the Drrector, shaH submit
proposais to the Council on approaches to joint implementation for decisions by the Parties
on future coHStruetiGn, operation, exploitation and decommissioning of ITER, as specified in
Article 2(e) ©f the Agreement.
 ---pagebreak--- Section 3 - Implementation of the Work Program
(1)   The Director shall implement the Work Program and its updatings after approval of
      the Council in accordance with the schedules provided therein for the various tasks.
(2)   The technical description of a task, the task assignment, and the terms and
      conditions of its execution, developed in conformance with guidelines for
      implementation of task assignments established by the Council, shall form the
      subject of a Task Agreement. The Task Agreement shall be drawn up by the
      Director and signed by the Director and the Leader of the Home Team to whom the
      task has been assigned. Task Agreements shall be concluded in accordance with the
      approved Work Program and its updatings.
(3)   Each Home Team Leader shall ensure that access, for the purpose of interaction,
      monitoring of work in progress and evaluation of quality control, to the sites and
      premises where a task assigned to a Home Team is being carried out, as well as to
      the personnel performing and documents concerning the task, is not unreasonably
      denied either to the Director or to members of the Joint Central Team authorized
      by the Director. The Home Team Leader shall be notified in a timely fashion of
      such intended access. The detailed arrangements for this access shall be specified
      in the Task Agreement.
Section 4 - Secondment Agreements
(1)    For the purposes of this Section,
       "Seconding Party" means the Party which makes a person available to the Joint
       Central Team in accordance with Article 8(2) of the Agreement, irrespective of
       whether that Party is the employer or not of that person;
       "Seconded Person" or "Seconded Personnel" means one or several persons made
       available by the Seconding Party to the Joint Central Team.
(2)   After the selection of a person in accordance with Article 8(2) of the Agreement, the
       employer of that person shall second such person without any undue delay to the
      Joint Central Team. In respect of each Seconded Person a specific Secondment
      Agreement shall be drawn up by the Director and signed by the Director, the
      Seconded Person, that person's employer and the entity operating the Joint Work Site
      to which that person shall be assigned. If the employer and the Seconding Party arc
      different entities, the Seconding Party shall endorse the Secondment Agrecmcnt(s)
      to indicate it has made the Seconded Personnel available to the Joint Central Team
      as described in Article 8(2) of the Agreement. The Secondment Agreement for the
      Director shall be co-signed by the Chair of the Council.
 ---pagebreak---         The Secondment Agreement shall state the work and the Joint Work Site to which
        the Seconded Person shall be assigned, that person's reporting responsibility, and that
        the Seconded Person and that person's employer will comply with the provisions of
        Articles 8(2) and 15 of the Agreement and of this paragraph to the extent they
        concern the secondment, and that the Seconded Person will comply with the internal
        rules regarding safety and security to be observed on the premises of the Joint Work
        Site. The duration of a Secondment Agreement may not exceed that of this Protocol.
  Section 5 - Termination of the Work and Final Reporting
  When approving the Work Program and its annual updatings, the Council, assisted by the
  Director, shall provide for a timely and coordinated termination of the work to be carried
  out under the Agreement including the final reporting; if actions by the Parties are needed
  or otherwise appropriate, then the Council, assisted by the Director, shall make suitable
 proposals.
 Section 6 - Resources
 The resources required for the implementation of this Protocol shall be made available by
 the Parties in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Agreement.
 Section 7 - Duration
 This Protocol shall enter into force upon signature of the Parties and shall remain in force
 for the duration of the Agreement
 Done at                                  , on                        in quadruplicate.
For the European Atomic Energy Community:
For the Government of Japan:
For the Government of the Russian Federation:
For the Government of the United States of America:
 ---pagebreak---                                                                        ANNEX H
                Co-Chairs'    Summary of the Negotiation       Meeting.
The four ITER delegations, pleased to hear statements from all sides with expressions of
willingness to conclude the negotiation, agreed to submit to their authorities the two
attachments with a view to concluding Protocol 2 of the ITER EDA Agreement as soon as
possible .
Negotiators' Initials:
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 ---pagebreak---     DRAFT PROTOCOL 2 TO THE ITER EDA AGREEMENT
AS GIVEN IN ANNEX I TO THE PRESENT COUNCIL DECISION
 ---pagebreak---                                     NEGOTIATORS' SHARED VIEWS
  At the conclusion of their work on the final draft of Protocol 2 on this date, the
  negotiators shared the following views:
  JL        Detailed Technical Objectives
            Detailed technical objectives of ITER referred to in Section 1 of Protocol 2 arc
  adopted by the Parties acting through the Council. The Council adopted those detailed
  technical objectives on December 15-16, 1992. (Attachment 1)
  __,       Guidelines for Implementation of Task Assignments
            The Guidelines for Implementation of Task Assignments referred to in Section 3 of
  Protocol 2 are adopted by the Council. The Council adopted such Guidelines on April 22,
  1993 . (Attachment 2)
 l_         Secondment Agreements
            The Secondment Agreements referred to in Section 4 of Protocol 2 should be as
  uniform as practicable and reflect the Guidelines for Secondment Agreements, set forth in the
  attachment hereto. (Attachment 3)
            If the Seconding Party is not the employer of the Seconded Person, it will use its best
  efforts to ensure that the employer of the said Seconded Person complies with the provisions
  of Section 4 of Protocol 2 and the Guidelines.
 4.         Financing
  With regard to Section 6 of Protocol 2:
 (1)     each Party will bear its costs relating to:
         a)      the participation of its members and experts in the work and the meetings of
                 the Council, the TAC, the MAC, and the SWGs, including the costs for travel
                 and subsistence;
         b)      the secondment of its personnel to the Joint Work Sites;
        c)       the execution of tasks assigned to its Home Team in accordance with Section
                 3 of Protocol 2; and
        d)      the organization of workshops taking place on its territory and the participation
                of its Home Team personnel in workshops, including travel expenses and
                subsistence;
 (2)     in applying Article 14 of the Agreement, the Council will take account of the overall
        level of resources that each Host Party has offered as support for its Joint Work
        Site;
(3)     other expenditures, considered by the Council to l>e necessary for the satisfactory
        completion of Protocol 2, will be financed through the Joint Fund.
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 ---pagebreak--- 5. Monitoring of the ITER EDA
—   • • •! —•    «•»• i-         11—*
            The coherence between the general constraints set out in Section 1 of
 Attachment 1 and progress of work shall be validated on a yearly basis, pursuant to
Article 16 of the Agreement. In particular, the technical approaches and the accuracy
of the assessment of the cost of construction of ITER shall be verified, as foreseen at
point 1(0 of Annex A to the Agreement, also on the basis of domestic data related to
the main components of the facility. These evaluations may lead the ITER Council to
readjust, if necessary, the constraints or the technical solutions.
6. Outline Design
           The Council has endorsed the TAC-4 response that "the outline design
[Attachment 4] will provide a sound basis for continued engineering design work
after (1) modest further optimization of the major machine parameters to provide a
reserve against cost increases, (2) modification of the engineering approache in
certain areas, and (3) a broadening of technical capabilities so as to achieve greater
operational flexibility."
 ---pagebreak---                                                           NSV Attachment
 ITER Detailed Technical Objectives
 1- General Constraints
 The ITER detailed technical objectives approaches, including appropriate
 margins, should be compatible with the aim of maintaining the cost of the
 device within the limits comparable to those indicated in the final report
 of the ITER CDA as well as keeping its impact in long-range fusion
 research and development.
 ITER should be designed to operate safely and to demonstrate the safety
 and environmental potential of fusion power.
 2. Performance and Testing
        Plasma Performance
ITER should have a confinement capability to reach controlled ignition.
The estimates of confinement capability of ITER should be based, as in
the CDA procedure, on established favourable modes of operation.
ITER should
*       demonstrate controlled ignition and extended burn for a duration
        sufficient to achieve stationary conditions on all time scales
        characteristic of plasma process and plasma wall interactions, and
        sufficient for achieving stationary conditions for nuclear testing of
       blanket components. This can be fulfilled by pulses with flat top
       duration in the range of 1000s. For testing particular blanket
       designs/pulses of approximately 2000s are desirable.
*      aim at demonstrating steady state operation using non-inductive
       current drive in reactor-relevant plasmas.
 ---pagebreak---           Engineering Performance and Testing
 rniR should
          demonstrate the availability of technologies csscniial for a fusion reactor (sue: .?•
          superconducting magncis and remote maintenance);
          test components for a reactor (such as systems to exhaust power and panic!'-5 from
          the plasma);
          test design concepts of tritium breeding blankets relevant to a reactor. The tests
          foreseen on modules include the demonstration of a breeding capability that would
          lead to tritium self-sufficiency in a reactor, the extraction of high-grade heat, and
          electricity generation.
 3        Design Requirements
 The choice of parameters of the basic device should be consistent with margins that give
confidence in achieving the required plasma and engineering performance. The design should
 be sufïïcicntfy flexible to provide 2xxcss for the introduction of advanced features and new
capabilities, and to allow for.oprimising plasma performance during operation. The design
should be confirmed by the scientific and technological database available at the end of the
EDA.
An inductive pulse flat-top capability, under ignited conditions, of approximately 1000s
should be provided. In view of the ultimate goal of steady state operation, ITER should be
designed to be compatible with non-inductive current drive, and the heating system required
for ignition in the first phase of operation should have current drive capability.
To carry out nuclear and high heat flux component testing at conditions relevant to a fusion
power reactor
         the average neutron wall loading should be about 1 MW/m2-.
         the machine should be designed to be capable of at least lMWa/m2to carry out
         longer-time integral and materials tests.
It is desirable to operate at higherfluxandflucncclevels. Within the engineering margins,
the ITER designers should examine the implications and possibilities of exploiting a wider
range of operational regimes. The design of the permanent components of the machine
should not preclude achieving flucncc levels up to 3 MWa/m2. For the second phase of
operation, the design should include the capability of replacing the shield with a breeding
blanket.           * '
 ---pagebreak---  4
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 "HJC ITER operation should he divided into two phases:
         llic first phase. the Basic Performance Phase, is expected to last a decade including a
         few thousand hours of full DT operation. This phase should address the issues of
         controlled ignition, extended burn, steady state operation, and the testing of blanket
         modules. It is assumed that for this phase there will be an adequate supply of tritium
         from external sources.
                  Controlled ignition experiments in ITER will address confinement, stability
                  and impurity control in alpha panicle heated plasmas. Extended burn
                  experiments will address, in addition, the control of fusion power production
                  and plasma profiles, and the exhaust of helium ash.
                  The aim of current drive experiments in this phase should be the
                  demonstration of steady state operation in plasmas having alpha panicle.
                  heating power at least comparable to the externally applied power. Using the
                  heating systems in their current drive mode, non-inductive current drive
                  should be implemented for profile and burn control, for achieving modes of
                 -improved confinement, and for assessing the conditions and power
                  requirements for the above type of steady state operation. Depending on the
                  outcome of these experiments, additional current drive power may have to be"
                  installed.
                  Functional tests of blanket modules in this phase should consist of a few
                  thousand hours of integral burn time, in parallel with the physics programme,
                  including continuous test campaigns of 3-6 days at a neutron wall loading of
                  about 1 MW/m2.
        The second phase. Enhanced Performance Phase, is also expected to last a decade,
        with emphasis placed on improving overall performance and carrying out a higher
        flucncc component and materials testing programme. This phase should address high
        availability operation and advanced modes of plasma operation, and may address
        reactor-relevant blanket segment demonstration. Operation during this phase should
        include continuous testing campaigns lasting 1-2 weeks, and should accumulate a
        flucncc of at least iMWa/m*.
        A decision on incorporating breeding for this phase should he decided on the basis of
        the availability of tritium from external sources, the results of breeder blanket testing,
        and experience with plasma aad machine pcWoflmance.
The impkriKfltation of the Enhanced Performance Phase should be mapç following a review
of the results from the Basic Performance Phase and an assessment of the relative value of
the proposed elements of the programme.
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                                           Guidelines for
                               Implementation of Task Assignments
  A,      Approval and Revision of Task Agreements
  (1)    Each Task Agreement exceeding 300 IUA in value shall be concluded only after the
  task with its technical description and assignment to a Party has been approved by the ITER
  Council.
  (2)    Task Agreements equal to or below 300 IUA in value may be concluded directly
  between the Director and the Home Team Leader concerned. The Director shall promptly
  inform the other three Home Team Leaders of such Task Agreements.
  (3)    The total value of Task Agreements equal to or below 300 IUA assigned by the
 mechanism established in paragraph (2) above should not exceed 3,000 IUA in any period
 between meetings of MAC.
 (4)     Revisions to Task Agreements to incorporate minor technical changes within the scope
 of work already approved by the Council may be implemented upon agreement of the
 Director and the affected Home Team Leader. Task scope changes up to a limit of +/- 300
 IUA or 20 %, whichever is smaller, per task may also be implemented upon agreement of the
 Director and the Home Team Leader. Tasks concerning work whose results are no longer
 required may be terminated by mutual consent of the Director and the Home Team Leader
 affected; the ITER credit for such tasks must be revised appropriately. All revisions other than
 1) minor technical changes, 2) scope changes less than or equal to 300 IUA, and 3)
 termination as defined above must be approved by the Council through procedures defined
 in the Agreement for new task assignments; in these cases, the Director shall adjust the ITER
 credit as appropriate.
 (5)     All revisions or Task Agreements not requiring Council approval must be reported to
 the Council.       . ..
B.       Task Identification, Definition and Valuation
In identifying and defining tasks, the following guidelines shall apply:
(1)      While acting in close interaction with the Home Team Leaders to identify tasks, the
Director shall also establish the ITER credits that the Parties undertaking the tasks would
receive, litis interaction should, as far as possible, lead to a common understanding on
feasible, effective approaches to identification and definition and the valuation of the tasks.
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 ---pagebreak---   (2)     Before the list of these tasks is sent to the Home Team Leaders for formal response,
  the Director should inform the Home Team Leaders of the list of tasks together with the
  credits the Party undertaking each of the tasks would obtain; any Party with an interest in
  performing a task should rapidly inform the Director so that if more than one Party expresses
  such an interest, the Director shall, in close interaction with Home Team Leaders, identify
  how these interests could best be taken into account, either through splitting into smaller
  tasks, parallel efforts or joint efforts.
  (3)     Within two months after receipt from the Director of the list and technical description
  of tasks, each Party shall for those tasks in which it has an interest, make a formal response
  providing the following information:
        (a)   a description of its capability to meet the specifications and schedules as well
              as the availability of necessary resources, facilities and know-how,
        (b)   an indication of where the work would be performed; however, where it is not
              possible to provide such information due to the iterative nature of a Party's
              contracting procedures, the Party shall give the Director an indication of the
              type of performing institutions likely to be involved with final notification
              immediately upon selection of the performing institutions,
        (c)   an evaluation of the technical risk and, in case of high technical risk, possible
              suggestions for parallel efforts.
 (4)      On the basis of the above information and of the guiding principles set out in
 Annex B,1(Q to the Agreement and these guidelines, the Director shall propose in the
  Work Program to be submitted periodically by the Director to the Council pursuant to
 Article 11 of the Agreement, the assignment of tasks to each of the Home Teams.
 (5)      In concluding particular Task Agreements, consideration will be given by the
 Director to including in the ITER credit the relevant work that pertains to those tasks and
 was initiated by the Party after the signature of the ITER EDA Agreement and Protocol
 1.                                              -
 (6)      Within each-task system area, there should be a reasonable balance of tasks shared
among the Parties. In assessing this balance, the qualitative characteristics of the tasks to
be assigned, e.g., the nature of test facilities and the level of technology, should be.taken
into account.
(7)      Where no Party expresses an interest in performing a patticular task, the Director
shall, through close interaction with the Home Team Leaders, attempt to interest at least
one of the Parties. If the Director fails to interest one of the Parties, he may appeal to the
ITER Council, in accordance with Article ?A (1).
(8)      For some individual tasks, parallel efforts by more than one Patty may be justified
because of high perceived technical risk or uncertainty, which could involve staged
assignments.
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 ---pagebreak---  (9)      The ITER Director shall, in close interaction with the Home Team Leaders, ensure
 that the disaggregation of work into tasks covered by Task Agreements docs not exceed
 what is necessary to ensure an efficient execution of the work, bearing in mind the need
 to ensure a reasonable sharing of the work between the Parties. Each Task Agreement
 shall describe a reasonable, coherent, self-contained scope of work wan well defined
 interfaces.
 (10) The distribution of design work between the JCT and the Home Teams should, in
 general, respect fee principle that the JCT should perform only that work which can be
 more appropriately performed by a central team. The total ITER credit for design tasks
 assigned to the Home Teams is understood to be the equivalent of about 500 Professional
 Person Years.
 C        Selection Criteria
 (1)      Expressions of interest to perform a task should be considered for selection only
  if they document the capability to meet the specifications and schedules as well as the
 availability of accessary facilities and know-how.
 Before rejecting any expression of interest on the grounds that the technical requirements
 axe not satisfied, the ITER Director shall inform the relevant Home Team Leader, who
 for a short period will be given the opportunity to revise the Party's proposal.
 (2)      The selection from among those expressions of interest mat meet these technical
 requirements shall be based primarily on :
        (a)   technical experience and capability of the proposed implementing institutions,
        (b)   technical risk of the proposed approach, and
        (c)   demonstrated understanding of the technical and managerial requirements.
 Other factors, such as the need to maintain a reasonable balance of tasks in a task system
 area, the priorities -assigned by the Parties to the work, or the quality of the proposed
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approach, should be taken into account as appropriate.
 D.      Role of MAC
MAC shall meet as frequently as necessary to ensure that the Director's proposals arc
acted upon quickly between Council meetings. Electronic and other communications
should be used to ensure rapid approval by the Council of MACs unanimous
lecomrociidations; other cases require Council approval according to the normal Council
Rules of Procedure-
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 ---pagebreak--- E.    Inadequate Performance by a Party on Design and R&D Tasks
(1) Inadequate performance by a Party on a task assigned to it is defined as the Home
    Team's inability to make adequate progress toward completing the task as specified
    in the Task Agreement or the Home Team's inability to achieve an adequate standard
    of design or workmanship in performing the task.
    Each Task Agreement should contain a standard article describing the broad
    principles concerning inadequate performance contained herein.
(2) When a Home Team Leader becomes aware of the possibility of inadequate
    performance on a task assigned to his Party, he shall immediately notify the
    Director.
(3) If the Director considers there to be a likelihood of inadequate performance on a
    task, the Director shall issue a formal "notice of inadequate performance" to the
    Home Team Leader concerned specifying:
    -      why the Director considers there might be inadequate performance, on the task;
           and
           a reasonable period within which the Home Team concerned should
           demonstrate, to the Director's satisfaction, that adequate performance can be
           achieved.
    For tasks assigned to the Parties whose credit is equal to or below 300 IUA, the
     Director may then proceed directly to reassign the task to another Party.
(4) For tasks whose credit exceeds 300 IUA, a copy of the formal notice of inadequate
    performance shall be sent to the Council for information.
    If, at the end of the period specified in the notice, adequate performance cannot be
    demonstrated, the Director shall make a proposal concerning the future of the task
    to the Council.
(5) When the, Director, having followed the procedure in (4), proposes to re-assign part
    or all of a task to another Party, his proposal to the Council'shall identify the
    following:
           the work to be re-assigned, and its relationship to the original task;
    -      the Party to whom the work will be re-assigned;
    -      the number of ITER credits to be re-assigned;
    -      the information and hardware and equipment to be provided by the inadequate
           performing Party relative to the work completed; business confidential
           information that had already been provided to the JCT with an obligation
           concerning its confidentiality shall be provided to the Party taking over the
           task; business confidential information that had not been provided to the JCT
           need not be transferred to the Party taking over the task.
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 ---pagebreak---  (6)    Where a task has been reassigned or cancelled in whole or in part following
        inadequate performance, the Director shall make every effort to assign remaining
        ITER task in a manner that maintains the principle of approximately equal sharing
        of tasks as defined in Annex B. In doing so, no work will be withdrawn from a
        Party performing that work satisfactorily.
 F.     Reuse of Facilities and Other Assets Resulting from a completed Task Agreement
 In his call to the Parties for expressions of interest in a task, the Director shall include,
 when appropriate, an element dealing with any reuse for the facilities and other assets
 resultingfromcompletion of such a Task Agreement within the EDA period. Any specific
 article within the Task Agreement shall be negotiated by the Director and the Home Team
 Leader(s) concerned.
 Terminology
 The following definitions arc used in the development of the guidelines for the
 implementation of task assignments.
 Task - that work which is performed by the Joint Central Team (JCT) or a Home Team.
 A task which is assigned to a Home Team is the subject of a Task Agreement, of which
 there may be hundreds. A task assigned to one Home Team may involve other Home
 Teams.
 Task System Area - a group of tasks that comprise a natural ITER system, of which there
 may be ten(s).
 Task Assignment - the process by which tasks are assigned to each of the Home Teams
 and the JCT.
Task Agreement - the agreement document that contains the technical description of the
task, the results of the task assignment process, and the terms and conditions of its
 execution.
 Staged Assignment— an approach to assigning those tasks whose technical complexity or
risk warrants a step-by-step assignment process in which conceptualising, designing,
developing, and testing (or other steps) may be successively assigned either to the. same
Party or multiple Parties or to a narrowing set of Parties in which case the initial tasks
involve multiple Parties but subsequent tasks are refined to involve fewer Parties.
Design Tasks - those tasks needed to carry out the design (both engineering and physics
design) activities to be assigned to both the JCT and Home Teams, and whose cost
estimate was included within the estimated 250 million January 1989 US$ for design work
in the Final Report of the ITER Conceptual Design Activities (CDA).
TgclmoLogy R&D Tasks - those tasks supporting the design which include the Basic
Technology R&D and the Specific Engineering R&D as defined in the above mentioned
Final Report and whose total cost was estimated to be about 750 million January 1989
US$ (400 and 350 million respectively) in that Report.
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 ---pagebreak--- Work Program - introduced in Article 11, the Work Program is understood to be an
evolving document receiving regular refinement throughout the EDA.
ITER Credits - the value in ITER Units of Account (IUA) [equivalent to 1000 US$ at
January 1989 values] attributed to a particular design or technology R&D task by the
ITER Director at the time the task is sent to the Home Team Leaders with a request for
expressions of interest. The only corrections to this value will be those related to changes
in the scope of the task. The sum of all such credits should be comparable with the
estimates in the Final Report of the CDA.
                                                                   Adopted by the Council
April 22,1993
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                     GUIDELINES FOR SECONDMENT AGREEMENTS
(a) The Seconded Personnel shall remain employees of their existing
    employers and the contract of employment between the Seconded Personnel
    and its employer shall subsist during the secondment. The employer
    shall continue to pay its Seconded Personnel their salaries and other
    related expenditure such as social charges, allowances, fees and cost
    reimbursement according to the legislation and rules applicable to the
    employer;
(b) The employer shall ensure that accident insurance and other insurance in
    favor of the Seconded Person which exist by virtue of the conditions of
    employment remain valid during the secondment to the Joint Central Team.
    The employer will immediately inform its responsible departments and its
    insurers of the secondment. If an existing insurance protection of the
    Seconded Person is affected, the employer will be responsible for re-
    establishing an equivalent insurance protection;
(c) During the secondment, the leave regulations of the employer will be
    valid and shall be ocronunicated to the Director. The timing and
    duration of leave during the secondment shall be arranged with the
    Director who shall notify the employer. In accordance with paragraph
     (b), the regulations of the. existing employer in regard to sick leave
    shall remain valid during the period of the secondment; and,
(d) The employer of the Seconded Personnel shall, with regard to the
    careers of its Seconded Personnel, give due consideration to the
    performance of these Seconded Personnel during their secondment to the
    Joint Central Team.
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OUTLINK DESIGN
The Council took note of the TAC Report on the Outline Design and, by endorsing a
recommendation made by TAC, considered that the Outline Design Report constitutes an
acceptable basis for consideration by the Parties to proceed toward the conclusion of Protocol 2,
although it is recognized that the detailed technical design will have to evolve in order to address
the concerns that have been identified by TAC.
Consequently, the Council asks the Director to address each of the recommendations on the
Outline Design in the TAC Report.
In particular, as recommended by the TAC, the Council requests the Director and JCT to conduct
a sensitivity analysis to determine the optimum way to achieve a reduction in cost while
minimizing the impact on the performance margin.
                                                                                                     JB
 ---pagebreak---                           ITER OUTLINE DF.SIGN
 I   INTRODUCTION
     This report describes the Outline Design for ITER developed during the first
 eighteen months of the ITER EDA. A coherent design has been developed which
 satisfies with appropriate safety margins the agreed programmatic and detailed
 technical objectives of ITER. The estimated cost of constructing ITER for the Basic
 Performance Phase is within limits comparable to those indicated in the final report of
 the ITER CDA. ,
    The Outline Design now provides a basis for the continued engineering design
 work, for focusing ITER research and development and for other related activities
 within the scope of the ITER EDA Agreement.
 II PROGRAMMATIC AND TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES
    The overall programmatic objective of ITER, as defined in the ITER EDA Agreement,
is to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy for peaceful
purposes. ITER would accomplish this by demonstrating controlled ignition and
extended burn of deuterium-tritium plasmas, with steady state as an ultimate goal, by
demonstrating technologies essential to a reactor in an integrated system, and by
performing integrated testing of the high-heat-flux and nuclear components required to
utilize fusion energy for practical purposes.
    Detailed technical objectives along with the technical approaches to determine the
best practicable way to achieve the prograrrimatic objective of ITER have been adopted
by the ITER Council, under the terms of Protocol 1 of the ITER EDA Agreement.
    The main characteristics and parameters of the Outline Design for ITER follow from
the agreed programmatic and detailed technical objectives. The statement of detailed
technical objectives establishes two phases of operation as necessary to meet the
programmatic objective, the Basic Performance Phase and an Enhanced Performance
Phase. The Outline Design provides the design for Basic Performance and allows for a
future incorporation of features which could be needed to achieve the objectives of the
Enhanced Performance Phase.
    The size, configuration and performance of the plasma in the Outline Design are set
to meet the objective of demonstrating controlled ignition providing an inductive pulse
flat-top capability, under ignited conditions, of approximately of 1000s. The
characteristics of the in-vessel components and the overall scale of the Tokamak follow
from this objective and from the design objectives set for carrying out nuclear and high
heat flux component tests at conditions relevant to a fusion power reactor.
    The Outline Design incorporates safety and technical margins consistent with this
major step in Fusion development.
                                                                                             V»
 ---pagebreak---   Ill       MAIN ELEMENTS OFTHE OUTLINE DESIGN
       ///.I Principal Parameters
       The principal parameters of the Outline Design for ITER are listed in Table 1:
                      Table 1 Principal Parameters of the ITER Outline Design
                  Fusion Power (nominal)                                1.5 GW
                  Burn Time (nominal)                                   1000 seconds
                  Plasma Current                                        24 MA
                  Major Radius (nominal)*                               7.7 m
                  Plasma Minor Radius (maximum)                        3.0 m- '
                  Elongation                                            1.6
                  Divertor Configuration                               Single Null
                  Toroidal Field (at nominal major Radius)             6 Tesla
                  Toroidal field ripple at plasma edge                 ±2%
                  (maximum)
                 * The nominal major radius is the barycenter of the standard plasma configuration.
      The main features of the Outline Design are shown in cross-section and in 3-D in
 Figures 1 and 2 below.
      III.2  Physics Basis
      Physics studies of the core of the plasma, based on statistical analysis and scaiings of
experimental results from leading fusion devices, indicate that the Outline Design
provides good assurance of sustained and controlled ignition under a range of
conditions and operating scenarios. The ignition domain is resilient to the key areas of
physics uncertainties - achievable plasma confinement, plasma impurity levels and
thermal helium removal. The overall machine parameters are set at the minimum size
necessary to provide reasonable safety margins and to avoid the risk of harm from
instabilities or disruptions.
      IIL3   Superconducting Coils and Meclmnical Structure
     The ITER objectives dictate the use in ITER of Superconducting magnet technology.
The design of the. overall magnet system is integrated with that of the mechanical
structure in order to minimize stress under the planned operating conditions. The
system comprises 24 toroidal field coils, a central solenoid and six external poloidal field
coils. The toroidal coils are bucked on the central solenoid in order to provide the
maximum volt second capability and a balance of electromechanical forces. The toroidal
field coils are layer wound allowing for structural stiffness to be provided by steel shear
plates between each conductor layer. The central solenoid is also layer wound with a
thick-walled conductor which provides the necessary structural strength. The poloidal
coil system is flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of plasma configuration
which could be of interest in the Enhanced Performance Phase.
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Solenoid                Toroidal      Field
   CS                   Coi I
                        Upper Port
                        Closeout
     10-\               Poloidal     Field
                        Coil PF3
                        Shield
                       Mechanical
                       Structure
                       Removable Shield
                       for R.H Access
                       Removable
                       Shield module
                       Vacuum Vessel
   -5H                Poloidal     Field
                      Coil PF4
                      Divertor
 -10                 Poloidal     Field
                     Coil PF5
                     Poloidal     Field
                     Coil PF6
-15\                 Machine     Support
                     Structure
                         ~20
          METRES
            Figure 1
 ---pagebreak--- f**wre 2 ---pagebreak---       IUA    Vacuum Vessel
     The Vacuum Vessel is a double wall structure fabricated from 24 toroidally
  continuous segments, welded between ports and filled with metal balls and coolant. It
  also acts as a shielding component and containment structure. Access ports are
  provided at three levels, upper (for shield/blanket installation and replacement)
  equatorial (for hearing and current drive, blanket module testing, remote handling and
  diagnostics), and lower (for divertor operations, pumping).
     UIJ5 . First Wall and Shield-Blanket
     The First Wall forms a part of a low temperature (< 200° C), water-cooled shield-
  blanket using conventional structural materials. The principal material is stainless steel;
 copper is used for the high heat flux surfaces so as to ensure good safety margins at the
 reference wall loading for the Basic Performance Phase. The shield-blanket is divided
 into separate inboard and outboard components and subdivided toroidally to allow
 installation and replacement through the upper access ports. The first wall is coated
 with low-Z material.
     The test blanket modules are installed through the outer port. They are operated
 separately from the shield-blanket and could be removed independendy.
     Provision is made in the Outline Design for a future incorporation of a breeding
 blanket which could be needed to meet the objectives of the Enhanced Performance
 Phase. The shield aitd blanket are both self supporting, independent components.
     JIf.6  Divertor-                                   -
     The Outline Design incorporates an advanced divertor concept in which power is
 transferred from the plasma edge to the walls of the divertor chamber before it reaches
 the divertor plates. The divertor comprises a modular structure with each module
 containing a cooled array of baffles to intercept the power. The coolant used is
 compatible with that of shielding blanket
     UIJ    Heating and Current Drive
     About 50 MW of additional heating is provided in the Outline Design. The design is
based on Ion Cyclotron Radio Frequency waves but is compatible with other forms of
heating and current-drive such as Electron Cyclotron waves and Neutral Beam
Injection. ICRF design is such that the antenna is able to launch a travelling wave (fast
wave) with current.drive capability. The total power could be increased up to 100 MW
or more without changing the antenna.
    UlS    Cryostat
    The cryostat is a filled, double-walled steel structure which acts also as a shielding
component and containment structure.
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 ---pagebreak---      III.1.) Safely and environment
     The ITER experimental device will be the first fusion facility integrating major
 elements of a thermonuclear reactor. ITER is designed to operate safely and to
 demonstrate the safety and environmental potential of fusion power. Specific features
 of the Outline Design include:
               - fast fuel recycling to minimize tritium inventory;
               - several barriers of confinement for radioactive materials including the
                 blanket-shield, the Vacuum Vessel and the Cryostat;
               - incorporation of technical and physics margins.
 Analysis to date shows that the the Outline Design is consistent with the anticipated
 regulatory limits for routine as well as accidental exposure to the public.
 XV ESTIMATED COSTS OF CONSTRUCTION
     On the basis of work done to date, the costs of constructing ITER according to the
 Outiine Design are estimated at 5.6Bn US Dollars (Jan 1989 values). A preliminary cost
 breakdown in main components are listed in Table 2.
                  Table 2 ITER Outline Design - Estimated Costs of Construction
                    %        in Million US Dollars Qan 1989 values)
                  Superconducting Magnet Systems                       1733
                  Vacuum vessel, blanket, divertor                      495
                  Cryostat, cryoplant, vacuum and heat transport        580
                  Heating, fuelling, power supply and other plant       799
                  Buildings and Structures                              590
                  Assembly Equipment and Assembly                       470
                  Sub-Total                                            4667
                  Contingency    p^jj                                      ^
                  Total                                                5600
    The cost estimate is based on the specific features of the design which meets the
technical objectives of the Basic Performance Phase and does not include the ITER
Team. The estimates are indicative at at this early stage of the Project and will be
updated as the work of the EDA proceeds. Firm cost data can only be determined when
the detailed design, including industrial cost estimates, is complete.
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 ---pagebreak---                                        FICHE SME
                 Impact on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)
The Community R&D contribution envisaged under Protocol 2 will be implemented through
work placed through the Contracts of Association and the NET Agreement as foreseen in
the proposed Commission Decision concerning the implementation of the Fusion
Programme.
Where it is necessary for industry to supply equipment and services required for the
implementation of the Contracts of Association or the NET Agreement, the Associations
and NET have procedures for inviting European firms to tender for such supplies. For large
contracts, firms from all Member States (plus Sweden and Switzerland) are invited to
tender, the eventual contractor being selected as the tenderer with the lower cost capable
of meeting the technical specification.
There are, in general, no specific provisions for SMEs in these calls for tender, since
technically competent SMEs are invited to participate to each call for tender as appropriate.
Recently, however, in the system of qualification of European firms within technologies
specific to fusion and essential for the Next Step in fusion research (OJ N° C 68,
 11.03.93, p. 15), it has been agreed that due regard to SMEs will be taken when
establishing the lists of firms or grouping of firms to be invited to tender for work in the
Next Step technologies.
The Commission is currently setting up a Fusion Industry Committee, consisting of
representatives from within the Fusion programme and from European industry, to act as
a point of contact between the Programme and industry and to advise the Commission
through the Consultative Committee for the Fusion Programme, on fusion-industry matters.
The interests of SMEs will be represented on this Committee.
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