Fabrication of ITER Central Solenoid Model Coil inner module

Author

Jayakurnar, R. ; Gwinn, D. ; Montgomery, B. ; Minervini, J. ; Chen Yu Gung ; Randall, R. ; Beck, W. ; Childs, R. ; Thibeault, E. ; Smith, B. ; Hycaj, T. ; Wohlwend, J. ; Paganini, D. ; Gertsch, P. ; Hawley, L. ; Miyata, G. ; Martovetsky, N. ; Zbasnik, J.

Author_Institution

Plasma Fusion Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

7

Issue

2

fYear

1997

fDate

6/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

981

Lastpage

984

Abstract

The US Home Team is responsible for the design and fabrication of the inner module for the ITER Central Solenoid Model Coil, to be installed and tested at JAERI, Japan. The design of the coil has been completed and the fabrication is being carried out. In the first phase, all the tooling for the fabrication have been installed, facilities established, process specification developed and materials procured. The fabrication approach will be confirmed by various trials, and fabrication of two full-size dummy layers. Following this, the fabrication of the 10 layer module occurs between June 1996 and December 1997. The paper describes the tooling and facilities, the process and supporting R&D. Progress in the fabrication is reported.

Keywords

Tokamak devices; fusion reactor design; fusion reactors; machine tools; solenoids; Central Solenoid Model Coil; ITER; fabrication; inner module; tooling; Coils; Conducting materials; Conductors; Fabrication; Insulation; Plasma materials processing; Research and development; Solenoids; Testing; Wounds;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Applied Superconductivity, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1051-8223

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/77.614669

Filename

614669