ENGINEERINGNET.EU -- Due for completion in 2019, ITER will be the world’s largest experimental fusion facility and represents a unique global collaboration between China, the EU, the United States, India, Japan, Korea and Russia.
The project is designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power.
Tight international regulations on research involving tritium and French Government directives require that the highest levels of physical security are maintained on site at all times.
Under this new framework agreement, a consortium of Unisys and the Dutch engineering company Arcadis will engineer the security systems needed to protect the facility from unauthorized access.
The four-year framework agreement includes the option to be extended up to 10 years and covers access control, circulation control and monitoring, identity access management, communication security, security and forensics, central monitoring and human factor integration.
Unisys’ French subsidiary will lead a consortium, with Arcadis to engineer spanning perimeter and surveillance security, identity and access management and command and control systems.
The contract value was not revealed.
BACKGROUND
ITER will be the world's largest experimental fusion facility and is designed to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power. ITER is also a first-of-a-kind global collaboration. Fusion is the process which powers the sun and the stars. When light atomic nuclei fuse together to form heavier ones, a large amount of energy is released. Fusion research is aimed at developing a safe, limitless and environmentally responsible energy source. The ITER project is sited at Cadarache in the South of France.
