ITER presents an updated project baseline to the ITER Council
The ITER Organization submitted a proposed update to the project baseline at the 34th Meeting of the ITER Council on 19 and 20 June 2024. The update states a new sequence of programme targets — start of research operations in 2034, full magnetic energy and plasma current in 2036, and start of deuterium-tritium operation in 2039 — representing delays of three and four years against the 2016 reference baseline. It also changes the first wall material from beryllium to tungsten and installs the divertor and blanket shield blocks earlier, so the machine is more complete when operations begin. These are stated targets and design decisions.
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Subjects
- ITER · research facility · France
- Plasma-facing materials and first wall · material class · not located
- Tokamak (toroidal magnetic confinement) · confinement concept · not located
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Updated baseline presented to the 34th ITER Council
ITER's current programme targets, the magnitude of slippage against the 2016 reference baseline, and the change of first wall material to tungsten
ITER Organization · 2024-06 · Verified
ITER Organization newsline, iter.org 'Updated baseline presented' and 'New baseline to prioritize robust start to exploitation', reporting the 34th ITER Council meeting of 19–20 June 2024; start of research operations 2034, full magnetic energy 2036 (three years later than the 2016 baseline), start of deuterium-tritium operation 2039 (four years later), first wall material changed from beryllium to tungsten
Recorded on ITER
- JET's DTE1 campaign sets the first deuterium-tritium fusion power record
- ITER adopts the 2016 reference baseline
- JET's DTE2 campaign releases 59 MJ in a single pulse
- JET sets the single-pulse fusion energy record of 69.26 MJ
- ITER presents an updated project baseline to the ITER Council
- EAST sustains a high-confinement plasma for 1,066 seconds
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems' declared target for net energy gain at SPARC
- ITER's declared target date for the start of deuterium-tritium operation
Related
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- EAST sustains a high-confinement plasma for 1,066 seconds · 2025-01-20
- Commonwealth Fusion Systems' declared target for net energy gain at SPARC · 2027
- ITER's declared target date for the start of deuterium-tritium operation · 2039
- JET sets the single-pulse fusion energy record of 69.26 MJ · 2023-10-03
- JET's DTE2 campaign releases 59 MJ in a single pulse · 2021-12
- ITER adopts the 2016 reference baseline · 2016
- JET's DTE1 campaign sets the first deuterium-tritium fusion power record · 1997