Italian power engineering company Ansaldo Nucleare has completed welding for the installation of crucial diagnostics, instrumentation and a cable tray on vacuum vessel sector #6 (VVS#6) at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (Iter) under construction in southern France.
Specialist engineers from Ansaldo Nucleare welded 1,483 attachments onto the VVS#6 and completed the work almost a month ahead of initial forecasts.
The vacuum vessel sector, one of nine such sectors, is part of a crucial component of the Iter tokamak. It is an hermetically sealed steel container that has been designed to house fusion reactions and act as a first safety containment barrier.
Specialist engineers from Ansaldo Nucleare welded 1,483 attachments onto the VVS#6 and completed the work almost a month ahead of initial forecasts.
The vacuum vessel sector, one of nine such sectors, is part of a crucial component of the Iter tokamak. It is an hermetically sealed steel container that has been designed to house fusion reactions and act as a first safety containment barrier.
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