As the last foundation segment is poured on the far side of the basemat, work begins in the foreground on the walls of the technical workshops and offices.
Approximately 20 people are working currently on the site of the Cryostat Workshop, where the basemat is nearly completed and pouring is about to begin on the first floor of the office building.
Within the on-site Cryostat Workshop, assembly activities will take place on two huge steel platforms built to support the weight of the components, jigs and fixtures.
Foreground: the basemat for the temporary Cryostat Workshop. Left: the exit platform for the completed poloidal field coils. Right centre: the Assembly Building basemat.
The Cryostat Workshop, which will occupy the parcel of land in the foreground, will be only a hundred metres or so from the entrance to the Assembly Hall.
The football field-size (50 x 100 m) Workshop will have equipment for machining, welding and testing, and a large "goliath" crane capable of travelling the facility's full length.
The Poloidal Field Winding Facility and the Cryostat Workshop, side by side on the platform, are the two structures on site that will house the assembly of components that are too large to travel from the Domestic Agencies.
A large excavator symbolically scratches the earth on the site of the future Cryostat Workshop during a ground breaking ceremony in June. Since this small portion of the ITER platform has been made available to the Indian Domestic Agency, it was natural to place the parcel-sized piece of India under the protection of Ganesha, the "Remover of Obstacles."
Four main cryostat sections (top lid, upper cylinder, lower cylinder and base) will be assembled in the Cryostat Workshop from 54 smaller segments shipped from India.
The Cryostat Workshop will be positioned on the platform in such a way that the four main cryostat sections will leave the building on transporter platforms and travel in a direct line, on rails, to the Assembly cleaning facility.
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