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Supporting Systems

Surrounding the central reaction chamber are all of the systems that will work in concert to create a 150-million-degree plasma: powerful heating and current drive, diagnostic, cryogenic, cooling, fuelling, vacuum and power supply systems. Click on the system of your choice.

Tritium Breeding

ITER will offer a unique opportunity to test mockups of tritium breeding blankets—key technology for future fusion reactors—in a real fusion environment.

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CODAC

CODAC (Control, Data Access and Communication) is the central control system responsible for operating the machine, with interfaces to more than 30 ITER plant systems.

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Cooling Water

Water will be used in ITER to remove the heat generated during operation and to cool auxiliary systems heating and current drive systems, cryogenics, and power supply.

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Cryogenics

Extensive cryogenic technology will create and maintain low-temperature conditions for the magnet and vacuum pumping systems as well as some diagnostics.

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Diagnostics

As an experimental machine, ITER will be equipped with a large array of diagnostic instruments to provide the measurements necessary to control, evaluate and optimize plasma performance in ITER.

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Fuel Cycle

Reliable, high-speed, continuous fuelling is essential for ITER to meet its goal of operating at 500 MW for several minutes at a time.

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Hot Cell

The Hot Cell Facility will provide a secure environment for the processing, repair or refurbishment, testing, and disposal of components that have become activated by neutron exposure.

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Power Supply

Electricity requirements for the ITER plant and facilities will range from 110 MW to up to 620 MW for peak periods of 30 seconds during plasma operation.

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Remote Handling

Remote handling is required for ITER assembly tasks as well as for maintenance and upgrade tasks once nuclear operation (deuterium-tritium operation) is underway.

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Heating and Current Drive

The temperatures inside the ITER Tokamak must reach 150 million °C—or ten times the temperature at the core of the Sun—in order for the gas in the vacuum chamber to reach the plasma state and for fusion to occur.

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Vacuum System

With a pump volume of 1,400 m³ and 8,500 m³ respectively, the ITER vacuum vessel and cryostat count among the largest vacuum systems ever built.

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Home made

n + 6Li => 4He + T + 4.8 MeV

The brain


Interfaces with plant systems

Cooling down the heat

MW
Peak heat load

Supercritical

K (-269°C)
Colder than the dark side of the moon

The eyes and ears of ITER


Individual Technologies

Snowballs in Hell

km/h
Speed of frozen pellets

Handle with care

200 000
Waste management facility

Feeding the Beast

kV
Power Circuit

Handle with care

T
Robots largest lift

Heat it and stir it

MW
Heating Power

The big nothing


Vacuum pumps

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  • Fuel Cycle
  • Hot Cell
  • Power Supply
  • Remote Handling
  • Heating and Current Drive
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