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The project

Assembly overview

The °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization has overall responsibility for the successful integration and assembly of components delivered to the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ site by the seven °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Members. This includes the assembly of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ tokamak, with its estimated one million components, and the parallel installation and integration of plant systems such as radio frequency heating, fuel cycle, cryogenic, cooling water, vacuum, control, and high voltage electrical.

Hundreds of thousands of assembly tasks, organized into construction work packages, have been carefully planned and organized by °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ engineers and schedulers. In its role as overall assembly integrator, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization is assisted by contractors and a Construction Management-as-Agent (CMA).

Computer-generated video of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ machine and the assembly sequence for components.

Assembly contractors working under one of the major assembly and installation contracts awarded by the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization. Construction work packages are released by the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization to contractors in achievable—and trackable—batches. From these construction work packages, the assembly contractors generate the installation work packages that define each execution task in detail.
 

Assembly contractors working under the Domestic Agencies. In a limited number of cases—for example the welding of the cryostat sections in the Tokamak pit by Indian Domestic Agency contractors, or the installation of remote handling equipment—the procurement scope of a component or system includes on-site installation work managed by the Domestic Agencies.

A Construction Management-as-Agent (CMA), whose role is to plan, manage, and supervise the works of the assembly phase including contract preparation, daily contract management, execution supervision, and site coordination. The MOMENTUM Consortium—formed by Assystem (France), KEPCO E&C (Korea) and Jacobs (UK)—was selected as the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Organization CMA contractor in 2016.

The construction platform has been divided into three distinct assembly zones: Worksite 1, green (Tokamak Pit, Assembly Hall and Cleaning Building) focused on the assembly of the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ tokamak; Worksite 2, light blue, focused on Tokamak Complex plant systems directly connected to the machine; and Worksites 3-6, pink and dark blue, for balance of plant activities (all plant and auxiliary buildings). 

 

 

2020

Start of Machine Assembly

2033

Cryostat Closure (baseline proposal)

2033-34

Integrated Commissioning (baseline proposal)

2034

Start of Research Operation (baseline proposal)