ITER “First Plasma” Date Slips Again; Fusion Organization Moves Goalposts

By Steven B. Krivit
Nov. 27, 2021

The ITER project has officially fallen behind schedule again. However, instead of explaining the delay, the organization now says its previous progress benchmark was never a “real target.”

In a press release issued at the end of the semiannual meeting of the ITER Council on Nov. 17-18, the ITER organization said nothing about the long-touted milestone of “first plasma in 2025.”

Instead, the organization said the new goal is “fusion power operation,” which, it claims, it can achieve in 2035. The “fusion power” milestone would mark the completion of experiments with test fuels and the beginning of experiments with a deuterium-tritium fuel mixture.

First plasma will be the milestone marking the end of construction of all the required reactor components and the beginning of experiments with test fuels.

In an earlier press conference, on Sept. 17, 2021, Bernard Bigot, the director-general, implied that “first plasma” was an artificial target date. After telling journalists that “first plasma in 2025 is no longer technically achievable,” he said, “We will be able to keep to the real target” — deuterium-tritium experiments by 2035.

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