Early morning fog dissipates, revealing a large expanse of the ITER worksite. In the foreground, the half-completed concrete slab of the temporary Cryostat Workshop.
All plots of the Assembly Building concrete slab have now been poured. Finishing, cleaning an testing are ongoing. The "openings" that remain are for anchoring the tooling equipment.
The European Domestic Agency, Fusion for Energy, has just signed the contract for the design, certification, manufacturing, testing, installation and commissioning of the four cranes that will be used to assemble the Tokamak - right here on the floor of the Assembly Building.
The thickest rebar in the B2 slab is made of 12-metre long rods that are 40 millimetres in diameter. These heavy rods are commonly used in bridges and in the nuclear industry.