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Progress on European ITER Toroidal Field Coil Procurement: Cold Test and Insertion Work Package

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The plasma confinement of the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) is provided by the magnetic field generated by 18 toroidal field coils. Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Domestic Agency… Click to show full abstract

The plasma confinement of the International Tokamak Experimental Reactor (ITER) is provided by the magnetic field generated by 18 toroidal field coils. Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Domestic Agency for ITER, is responsible for the supply of 10 TFC to ITER project. Their procurement has been divided into three main work packages: I) the production of the radial plates, structural stainless steel components housing the Nb3Sn conductors, II) the manufacture of 10 Winding Packs (WP) and III) the cold test of 10 WP plus their insertion into the Coil Cases. This article gives an update of the status of the production of the third and last work package performed under the framework of an F4E contract assigned to SIMIC SpA, an Italian company. In particular, the details of the WP thermal cycle, the insertion of the firsts TF coil in their coil cases, the closure weld, the gap filling and the machining strategy adopted to optimize the final TF coil shape optimized to minimize the field errors are presented.

Keywords: field; iter; toroidal field; insertion; coil; work

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Year Published: 2020

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