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Central solenoid module travelling

2 Jun 2025

Another 110-tonne central solenoid module is on its way to ITER.

A central solenoid module is loaded onto an ocean-going vessel at the port of Houston, Texas (USA). When it arrives at ITER it will be the fifth module added to the central solenoid stack (six are required in all to form the tower-like central solenoid magnet).

A little more than 15 years ago, in March 2010, the US Domestic Agency signed a Procurement Arrangement with the ITER Organization for the supply of the central solenoid magnet system. The scope of the Arrangement included the supply of six modules for the central solenoid stack, a seventh module as a spare, a precompression and support structure for the magnet tower, specialized assembly tooling, and busbar and cooling connections.

Out of that list of deliverables only three modules remain to be delivered and, since April, one of those has been travelling. 

After being transported from its production site at General Atomics in Poway, California, to the port of Houston, the fifth module has now been loaded onboard an oceangoing vessel for transport to ITER where it is expected later this month. The sixth and final production module completed testing in May; when it arrives at ITER later this year the assembly teams on site will be able to complete the stack and begin installing the support structure. The seventh central solenoid module, to be used as a spare, will be completed at a later date.

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