ITER has arrival
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - 08:30
in Physics & Chemistry
On Monday 3 June the first ITER load made its way from the docks in Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, to the ITER construction site. Its precious cargo: 14.5 tons of copper conductor manufactured in China. The 737-metre copper "dummy" will serve to qualify the tooling and manufacturing processes of ITER's large and powerful poloidal field magnets. "This is only a small load," said the head of ITER's Magnet Division Neil Mitchell, "but we expect that it is the start of an avalanche of deliveries to the ITER site now that the production around the world is building up."