The United States fabricated 8% of ITER’s toroidal field coil conductor, which will generate the immense toroidal magnetic fields needed to confine the plasma inside the ITER tokamak. Altogether, ITER’s 18 toroidal field coils will produce a magnetic field of 5.3 tesla around the ITER tokamak torus.
US ITER completed all deliveries of toroidal field coil conductor in 2017.
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US ITER and its vendors are moving into a new fabrication phase for the toroidal field magnet system in the international ITER fusion reactor.
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