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ITER CLI established
Dec, 2009
IC-5 convenes
Nov, 2009
International School - Phase 1
Oct, 2009
4th ITER Council meeting
Jun, 2009
The ITER platform is ready
Apr, 2009
Broader Approach inauguration
Apr, 2009
Divertor Test Facility opens
Jan, 2009
New ITER Headquarters
Nov, 2008
3rd ITER Council meeting
Nov, 2008
International School grows
Oct, 2008
IAEA-ITER Agreement
Oct, 2008
Last Domestic Agency created
Oct, 2008
Key ITER technology tested
Aug, 2008
2nd ITER Council meeting
Jun, 2008
"CERN" Agreement signed
Mar, 2008
"Monaco" agreement signed
Jan, 2008
ITER Itinerary work begins
Jan, 2008
Architecture contract awarded
Dec, 2007
HQ Agreement signed
Nov, 2007
1st ITER Council meeting
Nov, 2007
ITER & Japan sign first 'PA'
Nov, 2007
ITER formally established
Oct, 2007
International School opens
Sep, 2007
The ITER design. Updated!
Sep, 2007
Interim ITER Council in Tokyo
Jul, 2007
Work begins on ITER site
Jan, 2007
Signed!
Nov, 2006
India becomes 7th Member
Dec, 2005
Joint Work Site inaugurated
Dec, 2005
Members agree on Cadarache
Jun, 2005
6.5-minute pulse in Tore Supra
Dec, 2003
Canada withdraws
Dec, 2003
Europe proposes Cadarache
Nov, 2003
Who will host the ITER project?
Jun, 2003
USA returns
Jan, 2003
China and Korea join ITER
Jan, 2003
Joint Implementation meeting
Nov, 2001
New design, new impetus
Jul, 2001
Council approves Final Design
Jun, 1998
USA withdraws (temporarily)
1998
More records at JET
1997
JT-60 achieves world-record
1997
TFTR sets world records
1994
ITER engineering begins
Jul, 1992
JET achieves fusion power
Nov, 1991
A Design for ITER
Apr, 1988
T-15, the last of the "Ts"
1988
The Reykjavik Summit
Oct, 1986
The Geneva Summit
Nov, 1985
ITER Milestones
ITER is the culmination of decades of fusion research: more than 200 tokamaks built the world over have paved the way to the ITER experiment. The smallest is the size of a compact disc; the largest as high as a five-story building. ITER is the result of the knowledge and experience these machines have accumulated.
ITER will be twice the size of the largest tokamak currently operating. It was conceived as the necessary experimental step on the road to a demonstration fusion power plant. Launched as a daring exercise in international collaboration in 1985, twenty years of design work and complex negotiation have been necessary to bring the project to where it is today. The ITER site in Cadarache, France is ready: in 2010, construction begins on the ITER Tokamak and scientific buildings.