ITER – Successful jacketing in Protvino
ITER Newsline – Successful jacketing in Protvino
By Alexander Petrov | 09 March 2012
Manufacturing the toroidal field conductors for the ITER magnet system is a sophisticated, multistage process that was pioneered in Russia in summer of 1997.
Earlier this year, the specialists at JSC VNIIKP Podolsk cables a 760-metre cable made from 900 niobium-tin strands and 522 copper strands assembled in five stages around a central cooling spiral—the second product of this kind manufactured in Russia.
Late February, at the brand-new jacketing line at the High Energy Physics Institute in Protvino, this cable was pulled through a stainless steel jacket assembly.
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