Seven large R&D projects

During the Engineering Design Activities the ITER Team, together with the four Home Teams, had selected seven critical areas where to focus the technology R&D effort.

In these crucial areas more data about manufacturing, operation, and QA needed to be gathered to validate key aspects of the design and to gain enough confidence in the feasibility and performances of these components.

The seven Large Projects share common features:

• they are typically multi-stage activities involving multiple Party contributions and cross-dependencies, and high industrial content
• each has a unified management structure and organization in which Project responsibility is shared between the JCT and the Home Teams

The Seven Large Projects are:

• the Central Solenoid Model Coil Project (L-1)
• the Toroidal Field Model Coil Project (L-2)
• the Vacuum Vessel Sector Project (L-3)
• the Blanket Module Project (L-4)
• the Divertor Project (L-5)
• the Blanket Module Remote Handling Project (L-6)
• the Divertor Remote Handling Project (L-7)

European contribution to the seven ITER large R&D projects