Budget Implementing Agencies and European Voluntary Contributors BROADER Broader Approach and its Projects Japan and Europe contribute equally a to 1 million “BA units of account” The European part of this scope is mostly The Objectives !xed amount to the Broader Approach (BAUA). Each Party receives credit in provided by voluntary contributions from activities. The European contribution BAUA for work, services or hardware the Governments of France, Spain, Italy, For Europe For Japan has a nominal value of €339M, and provided, according to a breakdown Germany, Belgium and Switzerland, During the ITER negotiations in 2005, after rati!cation of the Agreement by both approach to support ITER, and to prepare that of Japan ¥46B, both in June agreed by the BA Steering Committee. with the remainder being provided by APPROACH the decision to site ITER in Cadarache Parties. It remains in force for a period of to undertake the engineering design and 2005 values. For convenience, this The scope of work is divided amongst Euratom, as shown below right. Fusion for Energy Japan Atomic Energy Agency was reached through an agreement 10 years and continues in force thereafter construction of DEMO. total budget volume is set equal the projects as shown below left. between Europe and Japan. This forged a unless terminated by either Party. privileged partnership in the ITER project and on a set of activities, to be performed The agreed joint programme consists of European Voluntary Contributors Activities In the Field of jointly in Japan - the Broader Approach three projects: the Engineering Validation IFERC-EU France Activities (BA Activities). In Brussels on and Engineering Design Activities for the IFMIF-EU Italy nd JT-60SA-EU Spain November 22 2006, at the same time International Fusion Materials Test Facility JT-60SA-JA Germany Fusion Energy Research as the signature of the ITER Agreement, (IFMIF/EVEDA), the Satellite Tokamak IFMIF-JA Belgium the representatives of the Government of Programme Project JT-60SA, and the Switzerland IFERC-JA GOBIERNO MINISTERIO CRPP Japan and EURATOM signed the Brussels International Fusion Energy Research Euratom Centro de Investigaciones DE ESPAÑA DE ECONOMÍA Projects which complement the ITER project and accelerate the realisation of Joint Declaration agreeing “to jointly Centre (IFERC). Y COMPETITIVIDAD Energéticas,Medioambientales y Tecnológicas fusion energy by carrying out R&D and developing advanced technologies for future implement the Broader Approach Activities in support of the ITER Project and an early The main objective of these three projects French Alternative Energies and Spanish Research Centre CNR - Italian National Swiss Plasma demonstration power reactors. realisation of fusion energy for peaceful is to provide information, complementary Atomic Energy Commission for Energy, Environment Research Council / Physics Research purposes on a time frame compatible to that from ITER, in the !elds of physics Taro Aso, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan and and Technology Consorzio RFX Centre Hugh Richardson, the Ambassador of the Delega- Project Management with the ITER construction phase.” The and technology, needed to proceed to tion of the European Commission to Japan, signing “Broader Approach Agreement” was DEMO, the next step in the quest for the Agreement between the Government of Japan signed on February 5th 2007 in Tokyo and fusion power. The three Broader Approach and EURATOM for the Joint Implementation of the “Procurement Arrangements” (PAs) between Each project has a common quality document management system) for sharing the activities started on June 1st 2007 projects represent a well-integrated Broader Approach Activities. the two Implementing Agencies detail the management system (common across and tracking of information, separate from scope of the procurement or service, iinclud- each Integrated Project Team) which has those of their institutional systems. ing its technical speci!cations, time schedule signi!cant common elements between and credit. For Europe, if the work is not car- the three projects. Management decision- To utilise the Broader Approach facilities, Organisation Italian National Agency for Italian National Institute Karlsruhe Institute of Belgian Nuclear ried out directly by F4E, each PA is matched making is by consensus of the Project different agreements are sometimes New Technologies, Energy for Nuclear Physics Technology, Germany Research Centre by one or more “Agreements of Collabora- Leader and the heads of the Home Teams. needed. For instance, in the case of IFERC, and Sustainable Economic tion” between F4E and Voluntary Contributor Regular technical coordination meetings the time available for projects running on Project Governance Development Designated Institutions (VCDIs). Ultimately involving all responsible of!cers ensure the Helios simulation computer is shared the institutions - JAEA, F4E, and the VCDIs - continuous integration of the various equally amongst researchers from the Steering Committee members of the designated institutions Project Team, is responsible for the place contracts with suppliers from their insti- projects or subprojects. The projects rely wider European and Japanese fusion The Steering Committee, where both of the voluntary contributors providing co-ordination of the implementation tutional budgets. on a dedicated common set of tools (e.g. programmes. Parties are equally represented, is the European contributions. of each project, including preparation Further Information responsible for the overall direction and of reports to the Project and Steering supervision of the implementation of the Project Leaders and Integrated Project Committees. The total number of people activities. In particular, for each of the three Teams involved in the three Integrated Project Messages from the Project Leaders Fusion for Energy Japan Atomic Energy Agency projects, it appoints the Project Leader A Project Leader, supported by the Teams is around 500 (at a level of effort and the Project Team staff, approves the respective Project Team and Home on these projects equivalent to about Headquarters: Naka Fusion Institute structure of the Project Team, the project Teams together forming each Integrated 400 full-time people). IFMIF is indispensable for the worldwide nuclear fusion programmeto learn the effect of the neutrons generated C/ Josep Pla, 2, Torres Diagonal Litoral, Edi!cio B3, 801-1 Mukoyama, Naka-shi, Ibaraki-ken 311-0193, Japan plan, work programmes and annual in deuterium-tritium fusion reactions in order to build a sound reactor. The technical dif!culties are surmountable, 08019 Barcelona Spain reports, and decides on the participation and given the quality of the IFMIF family there can only be success ahead. We have the privilege of partaking in Aomori Research and Development Centre of any other ITER parties. BA Agreement the common human endeavour to tame !re for the second time in our short history, this time the !re of the stars. Antenna: 2-166 Oaza-Obuchi-Aza-Omotedate, Implementing Implementing Building D1, Max Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik, Rokkasho-mura, Kamikita-gun, Aomori 039-3212, Japan Project Committees Agency Agency Juan Knaster, IFMIF Project Leader 85748 Garching, Germany In addition to giving advice, the function Web: www.naka.jaea.go.jp/index.html of each Project Committee is to monitor F4E Steering Committee JAEA Web: www.f4e.europa.eu and report on the progress of each project Joint work on the DEMO design has been started, covering studies on system codes, divertor, in-vessel components, For further information on the BA: [email protected] to the Steering Committee. Audit tokamak operation modes and maintenance schemes. DEMO R&D activities are being performed by using the For further information on the BA: [email protected] excellent R&D facilities now established at the Rokkasho IFERC site. The high performance 1.5 P"ops Helios Implementing Agencies computer has started operation, exploiting the new research !eld at the forefront of magnetic fusion simulations. These Each Party has designated an activities indicate that the IFERC project is now shifting from the preparatory research phase into the actual research. Project Committee Project Committee Project Committee Implementing Agency to discharge its obligations to the Broader Approach Noriyoshi Nakajima, IFERC Project Leader Project Websites Project Leader Project Leader Project Leader Activities. The Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) in Japan and the European IFMIF- EVEDA JT-60SA IFERC Most of the procurement contracts have been placed, and machine assembly in Naka has begun. The detailed www.ba-fusion.org www.iferc.org www.ifmif.org www.jt60sa.org Joint Undertaking for ITER and the research programme to be carried out once JT-60SA is operating is being developed jointly by all physicists involved Development of Fusion Energy, “Fusion Integrated Project Integrated Project Integrated Project in the fusion programmes of Europe and Japan. Despite the long distance between Europe and Japan, there is for Energy” (F4E) in Europe have been Team Team Team enthusiasm and dedication to try to maintain the schedule and quality of the delivery of components and the eventual assigned this role. They undertake this by machine assembly, commissioning and operation. This is very encouraging for the successful outcome of this project. the creation of Japanese and European BA Projects Home Teams, led by these agencies, Shinichi Ishida, JT-60SA