ITER platform
Finding your way
8 Jun 2020
The ITER platform has all the attributes of a small town. It has landmark buildings, winding roads and large avenues, traffic lights and stop signs. It is a bustling world of people and vehicles, of projects spanning the scope of construction and industry. It is a place where 35 nations were brought together to prepare the future of our civilization. In this map, we have identified 28 buildings and facilities, some already operational, some at various stages of construction, and few not yet started. Other features—such as overhead bridges and roads—are not yet marked. In a few years, we will need an updated map to find our way on the ITER platform. Scroll below to see other pictures taken by drone in late May 2020.
Photo EJF Riche - ITER Organization
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1 — Tokamak Building
2 — Diagnostics Building
3 — Tritium Building
4 — Assembly Hall
5 — Radiofrequency Building
6 — Site Services Building
7 — Cleaning Facility
8 — Cryostat Workshop
9 — Magnets workshop
10 — Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility
11 — Cryoplant12, 13 Magnet Power Conversion Buildings
14 — 400 kV Electrical Switchyard (ITER Organization)
15 — 400 kV Electrical Switchyard (RTE, Réseau de transport d'électricité, France)
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16 — Heat Removal Zone/Cooling Tower Zone
17 — Future location of the Control Buildings
18 — Future location of the neutral beam injection power supply
19 — Future location of the Hot Cell Facility
20 — Contractors Area
21 — Contractors elevated parking lot
22 — ITER Organization Headquarters
23 — Tokamak Assembly Preparatory Building (in construction)
24 — Assembly workshop
25 — Poloidal Field Coil Facility extension for cold tests
26 — Temporary storage facility
27 — Temporary storage facility
28 — Temporary storage facility
C — Cryostat lower and upper cylinder (cocooned)
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The ITER construction platform, filmed by drone in late May. Inside of the buildings covered in reflective cladding, in the centre of the image, the assembly of the ITER machine has begun. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche
The interior partition is gone: the crane hall (near end) and the Assembly Hall now form a continuous, 170-metre-long open space for assembly activities. All large components are transported along the heavy haul road (to the left in this image) for delivery to the far end of the Assembly Hall. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche
Systems assembly activities are underway in the lower floors of the Tokamak Complex, with ITER Organization contractors installing cryolines, cooling water piping and electrical cables and cable trays. Approximately 1,700 people are active on the construction platform, including European Domestic Agency building contractors, ITER Organization assembly contractors, and oversight staff. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche
Lots is happening in the plant buildings shown in the lower half of the photo. Equipment installation is progressing strongly in the Magnet Power Conversion buildings (centre); one of the last large pieces of equipment for the cryoplant was delivered in late May (a helium dryer); and preparations are underway in the Cryostat Workshop (right) for the reception of the cryostat top lid (in segments) this summer. In the red-rimmed European winding facility, two poloidal field magnets are well advanced (PF5 and PF2) and a third (PF6) will be delivered soon for cold testing. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche
The next large machine component to enter into the Cleaning Facility/Assembly Hall is the cryostat lower cylinder, which will be welded to the cryostat base. It is currently stored on the platform (left) next to the cryostat upper cylinder. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche
Several large building projects remain to be executed on the ITER platform: the ITER Control Buildings (with the main operational control room), the major Hot Cell Facility, and buildings devoted to the high voltage power supplies of the neutral beam heating system. All will be built on the right of the image, in the "corridor" that is free. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche
The batching plant that accompanied nearly 10 years of ITER construction has been removed, leaving space for the equipment of the cooling tower zone to continue to expand. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche