Russian Federation contribution to the ITER project

The report summarizes the progress in the design and R&D activity undertaken in the Russian Federation in the period after completion of the ITER EDA. For the last 3 years, since 2001 FDR, the ITER design has been evolved in details to resolve issues, to reduce costs, to define details and to prepare the procurement specifications for long-term items. During the ITER Transitional Arrangements (ITA) phase (2003–2004) the Design and R&D activity in the Russian Federation has been redirected and mainly concentrated on items in accordance with the prospective procurement allocation. During the last 2 years 33 Task Agreements were allocated to the Russian Federation Participant Team (RF PT). The list of Tasks includes the qualification of Nb3Sn strands, manufacturing of NbTi cable for the PF insert coil, qualification tasks for the FW and PFC/Divertor and design and manufacturing studies related to various areas: magnets, vacuum vessel, blanket, divertor, plasma-facing components, assembly, thermal shield, cryoplant, nuclear analysis, materials and safety.