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FIGURE 3.1 ITER construction site, February 2016. (Copyright ITER Organization, 2017).
FIGURE 3.2 View of the ITER tokamak complex.
were invited to come up with individual physical and engineering solutions. The
project leaders could compare different solutions in terms of cost and quality to
select the best ‘offer.’ In addition, they could build up a bank of creative tech-
nical ideas that might be used in designing a next-generation magnetic fusion
reactor (MFR).
Many of the ITER design and engineering decisions were made in the con-
text of a severe shortage of source information. To be effective, those deci-
sions needed to be flexible and variative. It was this logic that drove the ITER
development process.
