Some General Guidelines for the US TBM Costing

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Some General Guidelines for the US TBM Costing

• Cost for the Reference Case
• Cost is for the period between now and the
  shipment of the TBM deliverables (Test articles
  and ancillary equipment) in 2015 for DAY ONE ITER
  operation. The period is 10 years from 2006 to
  2015
• The cost is the total cost for the TBM project
  (based on the Reference designs/deliverables)
  including RD, design, engineering, fabrication,
  qualification, etc., as well as the cost of
  interface with ITER and other parties.
• The deliverables are based on the Reference
  Designs described in the Design Summary
  Documents.
• The DCLL Reference Case has a PbLi exit
  temperature of 470ºC and a test module that
  occupies half a port.
• For the HCCB submodule that has a size of 1/3 of
  one-half port and uses the EU (or Japan) first
  wall/box (first wall/box is not part of the US
  deliverables)
• The RD Cost includes all costs related to the
  reference design that occur within the next 10
  year period whether they are related to the first
  (Day ONE) Test Articles or subsequent test
  articles. But the Cost of the deliverables
  includes only the cost of the First Test Article
  and associated equipment.
• The US effort should take advantage of the RD
  efforts in other parties.
• RD performed by other parties and available to
  the US should, in general, not be duplicated by
  the US and should not be included in the US TBM
  cost.
• Cost estimates should state clearly what RD done
  by the other parties is essential to the US TBM
  project.

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Base Program RD Cost for High Performance Case

• In addition to the Reference TBM, it is
  recommended that the US carry out a base program
  RD on High performance DCLL (PbLi exit
  temperature 650ºC).
• If development of high temperature SiC for power
  plants is available around 2015-2020, a higher
  performance TBM can be considered for later
  stages of ITER testing.
• After the Costing of the TBM Reference Strategy
  is completed, it is recommended that the cost of
  the RD for the high performance case be
  estimated.
• Such cost will be identified separately from the
  Reference TBM cost