ITER – The A to Z on assembling ITER’s largest components
ITER Newsline – The A to Z on assembling ITER’s largest components
By Krista Dulon | 02 February 2012
It’s the year 2015. Three thousand workers are involved in the construction of the ITER project in Cadarache, France. The civil works on the Tokamak Complex are nearly completed and the Tokamak Building—the highest feature on the platform—rises 60 metres into the air. Trucks come and go from the largest building on site where five of ITER’s giant poloidal field coils are in various stages of manufacture …
For six years, beginning 2012, the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility will house the successive winding and assembly of ITER’s Poloidal Field (PF) coils, the huge, circular coils that will be positioned horizontally around the toroidal field magnet system.
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