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The ITER first wall panels are exposed directly to thermonuclear plasma and must extract heat loads of approximately 2MW/m2 (normal heat flux) to 4.7MW/m2 (enhanced heat flux). The panels are qualified through high heat flux cyclic testing before installation in ITER. Initially, the first wall panel prototypes will undergo full-power tests, they will be followed by the pre-series panels and finally...