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And what did you do during the holidays?

13 Jan 2025

Working on site during the annual office closure period is certainly not everyone's idea of an end-of-year holiday... 

Personnel from the ITER Organization, ITER's Construction Management-as-Agent, and the CNPE assembly consortium stayed busy at the end of the year.

And yet a not-so-small team of ITER staff volunteered to keep the wheels running and to keep pushing forward with the assembly of the ITER tokamak. On their list of tasks to advance in collaboration with contractors:  installing the vacuum vessel thermal shield on sector #6, machining the intercoil structure for sector module #7, and the start of on-the-ground preparations for the assembly of sector module #5. The teams also began reinstalling repaired panels of the support thermal shield in the pit. These panels provide a thermal barrier between the toroidal field coil gravity supports and the vacuum vessel, and they must be positioned before vacuum vessel sector module #7 is lowered into the pit later this year (April).

See the Construction Gallery for a selection of photos.

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