PRZOOM - /newswire/ - Moscow, Russia, 2005/06/28 - Japan officially abandoned its bid to host International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). The European Atomic Energy Community, Japan, the Russian Federation and the USA have agreed the site of Cadarache France to host this billion euro project..

The objective of the ITER machine is to demonstrate the scientific feasibility of fusion, with extended controlled burn and, marginally, ignition, for a duration sufficient to achieve stationary conditions on all time-scale characteristics of plasma processes and plasma-wall interactions. To do so the installation will produce 500 MW of fusion power during pulses of at least 400 seconds. The facility will also demonstrate key fusion technologies.

Japan won several concessions in terms of preferential treatment for construction of certain facilities of the project.

The Cadarache site appears to be remarkably suited to host ITER: the site has considerable experience in dealing with nuclear installations and hosts broad expertise on magnetic fusion research. The construction of ITER will benefit greatly from the technical, scientific and logistics environment already in existence on the Cadarache centre.

Cadarache fulfils all the requirements as defined for the generic site and has all the conditions necessary to host ITER.

Most of the ITER generic design assumptions are already perfectly fulfilled and where a difference exists, an evaluation of the additional work has been made. Certain aspects are more favourable in Cadarache. This allows certain modifications that could lead to economies. The modifications are minor both inside and outside the fence.

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