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- Dec 31, 203450% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
ITER Starts Research Operations
- The 2024 baseline sets the start of research operations at 2034, inaugurating a 27-month period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experimentation[2]
- Full magnetic energy and plasma current operation at 15 MA follows in 2036, and the deuterium-tritium phase in 2039[2]
- The original schedule had envisaged a first plasma as early as 2025; ITER's director-general attributed the change to the pandemic, quality issues and over-optimistic planning for a first-of-a-kind project[2]
- ITER stresses the new baseline is not directly comparable with the original schedule, because the milestones it names are different ones[2]
- The proposal went to the ITER Council in June 2024 and now serves as the working reference schedule[1]
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- [1]50%iter.org/node/20687/updated-baseline-presentediter.org· Posted Sep 21, 2026· Starts Dec 31, 2034 ✓· 50% of score
ITER's updated 2024 baseline gives 2034 for the start of research activities. Only the year is stated, so the pin takes its last day.
- [2]85%New ITER schedule - Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physicsipp.mpg.de· Added Sep 21, 2026· 50% of score
A partner institute's summary of the 2024 baseline's milestone dates; read in this run.[1]
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