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21 Sep, 2019

ITER Open Doors Day - September 2019

The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general publ...

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ITER in Pictures

New agreement ratified for the Neutral Beam Test Facility

The ITER Organization and the Italian consortium Consorzio RFX sign a new agreement governing the construction and operation of the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility. In a first phase, testbed results will inform the procurement of components for the ITER system. After operation starts at ITER, by 2032, the facility in Padua, Italy, will be a testbed for ongoing performance enhancement.

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Good luck!

On 23 July 2019, ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot, India's Ambassador to France Vinay Mohan Kwatra, and the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, Anil Kakodkar, symbolically smash a bottle of French champagne on a large chunk of steel representing the ITER cryostat. Two sections (60% of cryostat work scope) have been finalized.

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Cryostat base: completed by India

Following factory acceptance tests in the Cryostat Workshop, the completed base of the cryostat (1,250 tonnes) has been declared officially "receivable" by the ITER Organization. It will remain in the Cryostat Workshop until it is installed in the machine pit.

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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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Vacuum technology: record-breaking sealing performance

The leak tightness of the large metallic vacuum seals around every vacuum vessel port is of critical importance. In September, the first tests carried out on a large-scale test rig demonstrated better-than-expected performance (a leak rate of <10-11 Pa.m3.s-1 across each seal), setting a world record for performance. The seals are so tight that no more than the volume of air contained in a glass would leak over a period of 100 million years.

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First crawler crane in action

On 11 September, this crawler crane began lifting pillars to the top of the Tokamak Building for the metal roof of the crane hall.

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Rotated completely

The wings of the first sector sub-assembly tool (SSAT1) have been fully rotated inward and the tool has performed as expected. Later this month, the mock loads will be transferred to SSAT2. Both tools will enter service in 2020.

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Pumping up

ITER Organization contractors are managing equipment installation in the cooling tower zone. The infrastructure of the zone was provided by Europe; the design and fabrication of heat rejection equipment is part of India's procurement contributions to the ITER Project.

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Celebrating together

The ITER Director-General is pictured with Praveen Bhatt, Joint General Manager for Larsen & Toubro; India's Ambassador to France, His Excellency Vinay Mohan Kwatra; and ITER's Prabhat Kumar, Deputy to the Site Construction Director.

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Successful high voltage tests for MITICA

Engineers from the European Domestic Agency (F4E), Consorzio RFX, ITER Japan, ITER Organization, and the companies involved in fabrication of the MITICA high voltage deck and high voltage bushing assemblies are pictured in the NBTF High Voltage Hall below the connection between the insulating transformer from Japan (left) and the high voltage deck from Europe (right) after a series of successful high voltage tests.

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