Report of peer review of IFMIF project and relevant programs

Policy Planning and Administration Department

The International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility (IFMIF) project is an international joint facility plan for developing, examining, and evaluating various kinds of candidate materials to realize a nuclear fusion reactor, by means of intense neutron irradiation simulating the fusion neutron environment. In the past, Conceptual Design Activities, Conceptual Design Evaluation activities, and Key Element technology verification Phase (KEP) were carried out. KEP activities in Japan have been organized under cooperation between JAERI and Natural Science Research Organization - National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS) with the universities. Now, the framework of implementation of the Engineering Validation and Engineering Design Activities (EVEDA) planned as the activity in the next stage is under discussion. In EVEDA planned as the next activity an international cooperative organization strengthened much more is assumed. JAERI decided that it was needed to examine the necessity and the validity of the participation in EVEDA accompanied with an evaluation of the technical results of KEP activity and technical validity of the future plan, in advance of the decision for the participation. And JAERI requested to assemble a specialist group of the related fields in and out of the JAERI, and to perform "Peer Review of IFMIF Project and Relevant Programs".