Timeline

After increasingly detailed phases, the design of ITER was sufficiently complete in 2001 for the potential future Parties to be able to discuss the sharing of hardware construction costs.

The design is currently being developed in finer detail to allow procurement of hardware to start as soon as the ITER Organisation (which will own and build ITER for the Parties) has been created.

Figure 1:Construction Schedule

Detailed plans exist for the construction, operation and decommissioning of ITER, and indicate that, if the ITER Organisation is established in 2006, the first plasma should be possible in ITER by the end of 2016.