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ITER is a single very large tokamak under construction at Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, near Cadarache in southern France, built by a seven-member international collaboration.
43.7, 5.8 · exact · 2007– (organization); site construction 2010–
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- specifies Plasma-facing materials and first wall — The 2024 ITER baseline changed the plasma-facing first wall material from beryllium to tungsten.
- tests Tritium breeding blanket — ITER is designed to carry six Test Blanket Systems as breeding mock-ups and is not designed to operate a closed breeding cycle.
- is constrains of Tritium — ITER's deuterium-tritium phase draws on the same finite, decaying civil stockpile that every other tritium-burning project draws on.
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