AbstractAn alternative concept of the residual ion dump for the ITER NBI system is presented. The incentive is to avoid the inherent risk of the in-line electrostatic ion removal concept, which is presently foreseen in the NBI design: beam-blocking by enhanced reionization losses and potential amplification of electron currents by electrostatic acceleration. It is proposed to use instead a conventional magnetic ion removal system with remote ion dumps. This method of removing the residual ions has been proven in almost all injection systems world-wide over the last two decades. First calculations show that the maximum power load can be kept below 15 MW/m2, sufficiently low to use conventional dump plate designs.