Looking southwest on a bright August morning
24 Aug 2015
A new series of aerial photographs, taken in the early hours of a bright August morning, reveals the spectacular progress accomplished on the ITER worksite over the last five years.
Teeming with activity. © Matthieu Colin - http://www.matthieucolin.com/
Nested in the forest. © Matthieu Colin - http://www.matthieucolin.com/
Nested in the Cadarache forest, the ITER platform (pictured here looking southwest) is now teeming with activity: the roof structure for the Assembly Hall (in white) is being readied for installation in the first week of September, walls are rising in the Tokamak Pit; and groundwork has begun in the area of the cooling towers, the Control Building, the Radio Frequency Heating Building and the cryogenic plant.
On the left side of the image, a 10,000 m² warehouse for the storage of ITER components is almost completed.