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This document summarizes the progress of the NBTF Project relevant to the Third Quarter of 2021 including experimental results, issues, and changes (proposed and implemented).

This document summarizes the progress of the NBTF Project relevant to the First Quarter of 2021 including experimental results, issues, and changes (proposed and implemented).

This document summarizes all the activities performed during the year, including results and improvements, in agreement with the Work Programme approved by the Steering Committee at the beginning of the year.

This document summarizes the progress of the NBTF Project relevant to the First Quarter of 2020 including experimental results, issues, and changes (proposed and implemented).

This management note reports the activities performed in the fourth quarter (Q4) and described in detail in the attached documents.

This report is aimed to give the overall list of Items, Plant Systems and Durable Materials fully dedicated to the Neutral Beam Test Facility that have been procured under the NBTF Agreement, either those delivered on site by F4E procurement contracts or procured by Consorzio RFX (CRFX) under the annual work programmes. The overall inventory list is to be considered as a picture of the NBTF status, in terms of installed plant systems and purchased Items, taken at the date of this report and relevant for the closure of the F4E-CRFX Agreement and for the start of the new Agreement between IO and CRFX. Three main lists, namely NBTF ITEMS and PLANT SYSTEMS, BALANCE OF PLANT ITEMS (BoP) and DURABLE MATERIAL (DuM), are presented in the attached file ("Inventory List_20200417.pdf"). The overall content of such a document has been agreed during the last Liaison Committee meetings, and in particular: the DuM list (derived from the CRFX's purchasing office database) contains all the most important items purchased not considering those ones of a value below 5kEUR approximately; the list of NBTF Items and Plant System is almost identical to the one submitted to the Insurance company for the extension of the insurance period, with the addition of a column relevant for the Transfer for Use. The BoP list almost reflects the content of the BoP reports produced over all the WPs (F4E_D_2LCGG4) ignoring the Items of small value or not so relevant for the purpose of this report.

This document summarizes the progress of the NBTF Project relevant to the Second Quarter of 2020 including; experimental results, issues, and changes (proposed and implemented).

This document summarizes the progress of the NBTF Project relevant to the Third Quarter of 2020 including experimental results, issues, and changes (proposed and implemented).

The activities performed in the third quarter (Q1) are summarized and described in detail in the attached documents.

The activities performed in the third quarter (Q3) and described in detail in the attached documents, are summarized in this document.

Work programme 2019 Quarter 2 Progress Report of the activities T1/D3.2

Thisreport presentsthelist of items, components,works or part of them, to be procuredor performedwithin the "Balance of Plant".The list is notexhaustive orthe final one, as the installation on site is not completed, yet, but serves to have an updated list of necessary mainitems to be procured "in time" and not included in the different plant procurement contracts.For convenience the rev.4of this report isattachedto facilitate the comparison, when necessary, among the different versions.

In the document are summarized the activities performed in the first quarter (Q1), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

This document shows the status of PRIMA, MITICA and SPIDER CAD integration (buildings, power supplies, auxiliary service plants and experiments components ).The CAD model is also used at RFX as a tool to ve rify and manage the interfaces of PRIMA, MITICA and SPID ER experiments, power supplies and auxiliary systems.

In the document are summarized the activities performed in the second quarter (Q2), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

In the document are summarized the activities performed in the fourth quarter (Q4), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

In the document are summarized the activities performed in the third quarter (Q3), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

In the document are summarized the activities of the Fourth quarter (Q4), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

In the document are summarized the activities of the Third quarter (Q1), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

In the document are summarized the activities of the Second quarter (Q2), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

Thisreport presentsthelist of items, components,works or part of them, to be procuredor performedwithin the "Balance of Plant".The list is notexhaustive orthe final one, as the installation on site is not completed, yet, but serves to have an updated list of necessary mainitems to be procured "in time" and not included in the different plant procurement contracts.For convenience the rev.2 of this report isattachedto facilitate the comparison, when necessary, among the different versions.

In the document are summarized the activities of the Third quarter (Q3), described in greater detail in the attached documents.

Activities in the First quarter (Q1), described in greater detail in the attached documents, are summarized in this management note.

The activities in the Fourth quarter (Q4), described in greater detail in the attached documents, are summarized in this document.

This report presents the list of items, components, or part of them, to be procured within the "Balance of Plant". The list is not exhaustive or the final one, as the installation on site is not completed, yet, but serves to have an updated list of necessary items to be procured "in time" and not included in the different plant procurement contracts.

This document gives a description of activities performed under WP2015.

PRIMA Work Programme 2016, Quarter 2, Progress Report of the activities

T1/D3.4 Q4 activity Report

This report presents the list of items, components, or part of them, to be procured within the "Balance of Plant". The list is not exhaustive or the final one, as the installation on site is not completed, yet, but serves to have an updated list of necessary items to be procured "in time" and not included in the different plant procurement contracts.

This document gives a description of activities performed under WP2014.

In the first quarter the activities are summarized in this document and described in greater detail in the attached documents.

In the second quarter (Q2) the activities are summarized in this document and described in greater detail in the attached documents.

The activities are summarized in this document Third quarter (Q3) and described in greater detail in the attached documents.

The realization of the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility (NBTF) and the start the experimental phase are important tasks of the fusion roadmap, since the target requirements of injecting to the plasma a beam of Deuterium atoms with a power up to 16.5 MW, at 1MeV of energy and with a pulse length up to 3600s have never been reached together before. The ITER NBTF, called PRIMA (Padova Research on ITER Megavolt Accelerator), is hosted in Padova, Italy; it includes two experiments: MITICA, the full-scale prototype of the ITER injector and SPIDER, the full-size negative ion source. The realization promoted by the ITER organization is carried out with the contribution of the European Union, channeled through the Joint Undertaking for ITER (F4E), of the Consorzio RFX which hosts the Test Facility, the Japanese and the Indian ITER Domestic Agencies (JADA and INDA) and several European laboratories, such as IPP-Garching, KIT-Karlsruhe, CCFECulham, CEA-Cadarache. The early start of operation of PRIMA experiments is urgent because sufficient experimental time is necessary to face and solve the issues related to the achievement of the desired performance in time for the ITER operation, requiring NBI since the beginning. Substantial progresses have been recently achieved: the buildings construction, begun in October 2012, has been completed by the end of 2015 and the installation of some components has been started since the end of 2014. The SPIDER realization is well advanced: the installation phase is proceeding in good agreement with the general plan; it is expected to be almost completed by the end of 2016. In parallel, the commissioning of the SPIDER power supply (PS) and auxiliary plant systems is being proceeding. Tests at full power and remote control are planned, including also those addressed to reproduce the grid breakdowns and to test the relevant protections. The design of the MITICA injector components was completed in 2015their procurement is being made through a number of tenders, some of them already launched. The HV Power Supply system of the MITICA 1MV accelerator, provided by JADA, was delivered on site in December 2015. The challenging installation of these components, including the step-up transformers and the SF6 gas insulated transmission line, started soon after and will go on throughout 2016. The present phase, with the PRIMA buildings continuously filled with new components, with the installation activities progressing and with also the commissioning and testing phase starting represents a substantial step forward toward the main target. The paper will describe the main challenges the Project Team has dealt during this phase and the important feedback derived for the ITER HNB systems both from the technical and the organizational standpoints.