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iter newsline 06 Oct, 2008 - #52
ITER Vacuum Group visits Oak Ridge
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Left to right Walt Gardner (US), Robert Pearce (IO), Larry Baylor (US), Curt Gliss (IO), Jean Louis Bersier (IO), Dave Rasmussen (US), Liam (IO). (Click to view larger version...)
Left to right Walt Gardner (US), Robert Pearce (IO), Larry Baylor (US), Curt Gliss (IO), Jean Louis Bersier (IO), Dave Rasmussen (US), Liam (IO).
Vacuum Group members examining an ITER prototype ECRH vacuum transmission line at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Click to view larger version...)
Vacuum Group members examining an ITER prototype ECRH vacuum transmission line at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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.

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