Domestic Agencies

Each state that is party to the ITER project will have a Domestic Agency responsible for working with the ITER Organisation and providing the components it has agreed to supply under the international agreements.

Each ITER project partner has a Domestic Agency:

The USA has Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee

Russia has the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow

South Korea has the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Daejon

Japan has the Japan Atomic Energy Agency in Naka

India has the Institute for Plasma Research in Bhat

Europe has the joint undertaking « Fusion for Energy » in Barcelona

China has the China Fusion Center in Hefei.

As ITER host partner, Europe is funding an approximately 45 % share of the construction costs. The European Domestic Agency, Fusion for Energy is responsible for collecting funding or contributions in kind from European Union member states and the EURATOM programme. The body is constituted as a "Joint Undertaking", with its head office in Barcelona, Spain.

The European Domestic Agency has a budget of approximately € 4 billion for the first ten years of its operation and will employ around a hundred staff. In particular, it is responsible for constructing the facility buildings and for non-transportable items, such as the office buildings. It will also be involved in manufacturing many of the components, in collaboration with other project partners. In addition, the European Agency is funding three joint projects with the Japanese: the IFMIF facility, designed to study the behaviour of irradiated materials; the computerised calculation and simulation centre; and the remote experiments and modernisation of the Japanese tokamak JT-60.