ITER – F4E

ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy and to maintain fusion for long periods of time. It will also be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity.

Thousands of engineers and scientists have contributed to the design of ITER since the idea for an international joint experiment in fusion was first launched in 1985. The ITER Members—China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States—are now engaged in a 35-year collaboration to build and operate the ITER experimental device, and together bring fusion to the point where a demonstration fusion reactor can be designed.

Alter Technology is leading a contract to support the Project Management in the area of CE Marking in ITER project, since March 2014. The end customer is Fusion for Energy (F4E), the agency of the European Union responsible for providing Europe’s contribution to ITER, the world’s largest scientific partnership that aims to demonstrate the technological and scientific feasibility of fusion energy.

• To establish a set of baseline rules to guide the assessment of item conformity to CE marking requirements based on the main F4E scope directives such as EMCD, LVD, MD, PED, CP, etc.
• Support to F4E and its suppliers for CE Marking Directives application and equipment certification.
• Refinement and extension of analysis of applicability of CE Marking Directives to systems carried out in previous Task Orders due to design changes, technical evolution and additional documentation for complex systems.
• CReview of F4E suppliers CE Marking strategy and declarations of conformity.
• The CE marking of complex systems presents certain difficulties that require a solid expertise in order to achieve the objective without jeopardizing the time-to-market and increasing the cost of the solution. Complex systems are composed of several subsystems, result of the integration of products of different nature, type and origin, and subject to different directives.

1. Setup and maintenance of the Dual Use Export Control Compliance Programme, audits and training.
2. To complete the final design of the CIS Discharge Loop Interface Boxes (DLIB) and procure 150 units required for ITER hardwired interlocks