80% of Iter construction value now under contract

About 80 per cent of the international fusion project Iter’s in-kind construction costs have been signed for, according to the project’s management council.

During a meeting of the Iter Council in Washington last week, four so-called procurement arrangements were signed between the Iter Organization and its domestic agencies. Among them is an arrangement for Iter’s pulsed power electrical network, which will be procured by China; and for a diagnostic system that will monitor fusion performance, called low field side reflectometer, which will be provided by the US.