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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 ...
20 Jul, 2020

11th ITER International School

The 11th ITER International School will be held from 20 to 24 July 2020, hosted by Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France.

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In The Press

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ITER in Pictures

Korea is building another massive assembly tool

This tree-like assembly tool will support, align, and stabilize the vacuum vessel sub-assemblies as they are joined and welded in the Tokamak pit. Fabrication is progressing now at Yujin Machinery in Changwon for shipment before the end of the year.

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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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Last concrete pour of the Tokamak Building

On 7 November 2019, the last concrete plot of the Tokamak Building is poured by the VFR consortium, contractor to the European Domestic Agency for construction of the Tokamak Complex. This completes work on the seven-level concrete structure that began in 2014. (In the foreground is Jérôme Stubler, president of Vinci Construction.)

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The doors open and ...

... the segments of the upending tool, delivered by Korea, enter. This large structure is designed to "upend" ITER's largest components (toroidal field coils and vacuum vessel sectors) from horizontal to vertical.

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First level pillars nearly installed

Pillars are now aligned along both sides of the Tokamak Building rooftop and bracing bars are being installed between the pillars. A second crawler crane will be set up on the far side to help handle the heavy roof modules that will be installed between mid-December and mid-January.

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Busbars galore

Inside of the Magnet Power Conversion buildings, contractors are installing the first busbars. Approximately five kilometres of large, aluminium, water-cooled DC busbars connect the power converters to the magnets feeders.

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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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