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Fig. 1: A cutaway view of the ITER Tokamak (courtesy of ITER IO)ITER aims to produce a significant amount of fusionpower (500MW) for about 7 minutes or 300 MWfor 50 minutes. This venture began in 1985 as acollaboration between the then Soviet Union, theUnited States, the European Union and Japan and adetailed design was agreed in 2001. On 24 October2007, following ratification by the Parties, the ITERAgreement entered into force.ITER is being constructed at Cadarache in the Southof France. Europe, as the host party, and France, asthe host state, have special responsibilities for thesuccess of the project. In particular, Europe supports45% of the construction cost and 34% of the cost ofoperation, deactivation and decommissioning of thefacility as well as preparing the site.FUSION FUELSSince deuterium is a common and readily separable component of water,there is a virtually inexhaustible supply in the oceans. In contrast, tritiumdoes not occur naturally and must be generated. In a fusion reactor thiscould be achieved by using reactions that occur between neutrons formedin the fusion reaction and the light metal lithium. There are sufficientreserves of lithium available to meet world electricity demand for severalthousands of years.Domestic Agencies. F4E, as the European DomesticAgency, will provide components to ITER that amountto about one third of the overall value of the facility.As well as agreeing upon the procurement sharingof components, the maturity of the packages tobe handed over to the Domestic Agencies fortheir procurement by ITER was also agreed andcategorised as “functional specifications”, “detaileddesign” or “build-to-print” level. Each case implies adifferent level of preparatory work for the DomesticAgencies.PROCUREMENT SHARINGTo ensure a fair cost sharing of ITER by “value”, around 90% of the projectis built by in kind contributions. In kind contributions have been classifiedinto 85 procurement “packages” which were divided among the sevenparties to the ITER Agreement. Some procurement packages are dividedamong several parties which introduces additional complexity to manageinterfaces.Most of the components that make up the ITERfacility are to be manufactured by each of the ITERParties and contributed in kind to ITER throughANNUAL REPORT 2010 FUSION FOR ENERGY17
Broader ApproachIn February 2007 Euratom and the Japanesegovernment signed the Broader Approach (BA)agreement. This aims to complement the ITER Projectand to accelerate the realisation of fusion energy bycarrying out R&D and developing some advancedtechnologies for future demonstration fusion powerreactors (DEMO). Within the BA three main projectsare being implemented:The first project will generate a preliminaryengineering design of the International FusionMaterials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) validated byprototypes of key subsystem. Fusion as a majorenergy source will require materials which maintaintheir essential physical properties and which do notremain highly radioactive for extended periods of timeafter exposure to the harsh thermal and irradiationconditions inside a fusion reactor. IFMIF will allowtesting and qualification of advanced materials in anenvironment similar to that of a future fusion powerplant.Demonstration Fusion ReactorsBeyond ITER, it is envisaged that demonstrationfusion reactors could be constructed that can produceelectrical power and thereafter be commercialised. Toachieve this in the shortest timescale (the “fast track”),studies have shown that aside from the operation ofITER, a parallel programme of materials testing wouldbe needed.While the final design of DEMO will depend to a largeextent on the results obtained from the exploitationof ITER and other fusion experiments, it is envisagedthat in the longer term F4E will prepare and coordinatea programme of research and development activitiesin preparation for DEMO.The second BA project is the Japan-EU SatelliteTokamak Programme (STP). During ITERconstruction, major experimental facilities will berequired to develop operating scenarios and addresskey physics issues for an efficient start up of ITERexperimentation and for research towards DEMO.The STP in Japan has been identified as a devicewhich could fulfil these objectives. It will therefore beupgraded to an advanced superconducting tokamakand used by Europe and Japan as a “satellite” facilityto ITER.The third BA project is the International FusionEnergy Research Centre (IFERC). The missionsof the centre include the coordination of DEMODesign and R&D activities, large scale simulationactivities of fusion plasmas by super-computer andremote experimentation activities to facilitate a broadparticipation of scientists into ITER experiments.To develop synergy with its activities related toITER, it was decided that F4E should also be theImplementing Agency of Euratom for the BroaderApproach. The resources for the implementation ofthe Broader Approach will be largely provided on avoluntary basis from several participating Europeancountries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain andSwitzerland).18
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