Poloidal field coil number six for the €20bn International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) project in southern France has been transferred from the onsite winding facility to a storage facility where it will be kept until it is assembled as part of the Iter fusion machine, or tokamak.
The coil was manufactured in China and took more than eight years to complete. At 11.5m in diameter, it is the second smallest of the six Iter ring-shaped magnets, but at 400 tonnes by far the heaviest.
The coil was delivered to Iter in June 2020 and was the first to be cold-tested on site. The coil is scheduled to be lowered into the tokamak assembly pit in April.
The coil was manufactured in China and took more than eight years to complete. At 11.5m in diameter, it is the second smallest of the six Iter ring-shaped magnets, but at 400 tonnes by far the heaviest.
The coil was delivered to Iter in June 2020 and was the first to be cold-tested on site. The coil is scheduled to be lowered into the tokamak assembly pit in April.
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