Where components are born
22 Dec 2014
In 2014, Japan ships the first superconducting conductors for the ITER central solenoid to the US, who is in charge of winding the central solenoid modules. Five conductors out of 49 are shipped in June.
« Une ondulation de lamelles verticales » — c'est ainsi que l'architecte décrit la principale caractéristique visuelle bâtiment du siège d'ITER Organization. Ces pare-soleils offriront une protection contre le soleil frappant la façade nord-ouest du bâtiment et réduiront les besoins declimatisation. Constitués de béton fibré hautement résistant, ces 3 104 pare-soleils participeront également à la résistance structurale du bâtiment. Photo : Ricciotti
A l'abri d'un petit bosquet, niché dans une courbe de la plateforme ITER, un espace a été libéré pour y construire le siège d'ITER Organization. Photo : Altivue/AIF
The Chinese Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) has successfully accomplished a full-scale qualification prototype for one of the key components of ITER's magnet feeder system—the vacuum vessel that will provide thermal insulation to the components at the very end of the feeders inside of the Tokamak gallery.
In October, the European Domestic Agency Europe announces the realization of an important procurement milestone for ITER: the completion of Europe's share of the niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) superconducting strand required for the fabrication of ITER's powerful toroidal field coils.
The last batch of Russian-produced superconducting strands for the ITER magnet system is shipped for cabling from the Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (Udmurtia) to JSC VNIIKP (Podolsk) on 3 December.
At the heart of the ITER Tokamak is the world's most powerful pulsed superconducting electromagnet—the central solenoid. The US ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has begun fabrication of the magnet modules with vendor General Atomics.