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ITER Vacuum Group visits Oak Ridge

6 Oct 2008 - Sabina Griffith
Left to right Walt Gardner (US), Robert Pearce (IO), Larry Baylor (US), Curt Gliss (IO), Jean Louis Bersier (IO), Dave Rasmussen (US), Liam (IO).

Ice is their profession, but the collaboration between the vacuum teams of US ITER and the ITER Organization is all but cold: last week the IO team witnessed the firing of the world largest "killer pellet" at Oak Ridge National Laboratory: A disruption mitigation pellet made of deuterium ice the size of a wine cork was fired at 600 m/s into a foil target. Such pellets are an option for disruption mitigation on ITER.

Vacuum Group members examining an ITER prototype ECRH vacuum transmission line at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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