ITER – US production of superconducting wire under way
ITER Newsline – US production of superconducting wire under way
By Agatha Bardoel | 24 February 2012
ITER will use 100,000 kilometres of low-temperature, helium-cooled superconducting wire to generate the immense toroidal magnetic fields needed to confine the 150-million-degree Celsius plasma inside a tokamak machine. “By next September, US ITER will have its share of that wire ready,” says Kevin Chan, a project engineer for the US ITER magnet systems.
The United States is responsible for 8 percent of the toroidal field coil conductor that the huge experimental fusion reactor requires; the rest of the conductor will be supplied by other ITER Members. Eighteen toroidal field magnets will encircle the inside walls of the ten-story-tall tokamak.
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