Research centre CEA Cadarache

As for timing, ITER's twenty twenty-four baseline puts start of research operations in twenty thirty-four, full field and current in twenty thirty-six, and deuterium-tritium operation in twenty thirty-nine.

The first eight gyrotrons, four Japanese, four Russian, were specified for that initial configuration, and the first Russian-built units have already been installed in the radio frequency building at Cadarache.

As Mark Henderson, then head of ITER's electron cyclotron section, put it from performance measured in kilowatts in the early years of development, we now have devices routinely operating at one megawatt for periods of one thousand seconds.

So let's talk about the actual target.

The scale and complexity of the project has taken in more than $12 billion, or 30% of global public spending on fusion R&D since 2010, when the construction of the testing and demonstration site began.

So the site was located in, in, uh, close to Aix-en-Provence in a place called Cadarache in the, in the Durance Valley in, uh, in the South of France.

Today, we are at a, at a place where essentially the site is ready in a sense.

Uh, the, all the f- all the, the services, the buildings, uh, uh, would it be, uh, the, the electricity, the coolants, uh, and so on.