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14 Nov, 2019

Usine Extraordinaire à Marseille

The second edition of 'Extraordinary Factories' will take place in Marseille, France, from 14 to 16 November 2019. The event is ...

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Blanket first wall: Qualification program concludes in Europe

A first wall panel full-scale prototype manufactured by the consortium Iberdrola/Woods/Leading under contract with the European Domestic Agency, Fusion for Energy, for the final phase of the qualification program. The panel measures 1.5 x 1 metre; 440 like this will be necessary to cover the inner surfaces of the ITER vacuum vessel.

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Science on the weekend

Every year in France, science is "à la fête" for two consecutive weekends in October. Free events and demonstrations—tailored particularly to school-age children—offer a fun and friendly way to discover projects like ITER. During the 2019 edition, ITER volunteers met the public in four localities: Manosque, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, and Villeneuve-Loubet (near Nice).

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Two major machine assembly contracts awarded

The ITER Organization has selected two international consortia to carry out Tokamak machine assembly over the next five years. The first, TAC1, is signed on 30 September 2019 (photo) with the CNPE consortium (China Nuclear Power Engineering; China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction Company Ltd.; Southwestern Institute of Physics; Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences ASIPP; and Framatome). The second, TAC2, is signed on 29 July 2019 with DYNAMIC SNC consortium (Ansaldo Nucleare; Endel Engie; Orys Group ORTEC; SIMIC; Ansalso Energia; and Leading Metal Mechanic Solutions SL). For contract details, see: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3327.

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How ITER construction progresses

The ITER worksite. In steel grey: the completed buildings; in purple: buildings in progress; in blue: future buildings. © Fusion for Energy 2019

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The crane hall begins to emerge

From the top of one of the worksite cranes, it is easy to imagine how the heavy lift bridge cranes will execute their back-and-forth ballet between the Assembly Hall (in black) and the Tokamak Building.

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Patrouille de France colours the sky near ITER

The national air display team, the Patrouille de France, performed a double flyover of the neighbouring CEA-Cadarache in October to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the nuclear research centre's creation. There was a front-row view from the ITER site...

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Shift of weight

In late September, the second 360-tonne load (at left) was transferred to SSAT tool #2 (on the right). After one month of functional tests on the second tool, the loads will be removed and stored until needed for the testing of the "upending" structure that has been shipped by Korea. (See more on that tool here: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3112)

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10-metre-long shafts

Thirteen vertical turbine pumps will take cooling water from deep in the hot basins and circulate it either to the cold basin, or through the installation's heat exchangers. The shafts, pictured, connect the rotor (impeller) to the motor.

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Inside the cold factory

As large as two football pitches, the ITER cryoplant provides cooling fluids to 10,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets, eight massive cryopumps, and thousands of square metres of thermal shielding.

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