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Successful test of the ITER Itinerary

The day dawns over the ITER site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance on 20 September 2013. The ITER test convoy arrived successfully after a four-night journey from the Mediterranean Sea. (Click to view larger version...)
The day dawns over the ITER site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance on 20 September 2013. The ITER test convoy arrived successfully after a four-night journey from the Mediterranean Sea.
The ITER Itinerary test convoy, featuring an 800-metric-ton trailer replicating the weight and dimensions of ITER's most exceptional loads, has successfully completed its four-night journey, arriving at the ITER construction site at 4:45 a.m. on Friday 20 September.

The 46-metre-long trailer, with its dummy load of 360 concrete blocks, was escorted by a large squadron of police officers and followed by support vehicles and technical personnel. It had completed the journey from Berre L'Etang near the Mediterranean Sea to the ITER site over four nights.

Large-scale public works were carried out by France as Host to the ITER Project along the 104 kilometres of the ITER Itinerary between 2008 and 2011 to widen roads, replace or reinforce bridges and modify intersections in preparation for the exceptional size and weight of some of the ITER components.

The test campaign was conceived to monitor key points along the Itinerary. Measurements collected as the convoy passed over bridges and negotiated its way through towns and intersections will be carefully analyzed in the weeks to come. But already, the Itinerary has demonstrated its conformity with the rigorous technical specifications of ITER's most exceptional loads.

Organized by Agence Iter France in close collaboration with French authorities; implemented by ITER's global logistics service provider DAHER; and financed by the European Domestic Agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, the test mockup simultaneously replicates the largest and the heaviest of the actual loads that will be transported for ITER: 600 metric tons (plus the 185-metric-ton trailer), 33 metres long, 9 metres wide and 10 metres tall.

For the ITER Organization—responsible for the construction and operation of ITER—the successful arrival of the Itinerary test convoy is a major milestone.

Read the full Press Release in English and in French.

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