US ITER is responsible for the design, fabrication, and delivery of the vacuum auxiliary and roughing pumps systems, which allow for plasma operations to be sustained while also supporting functions such as leak detection and protection of some diagnostic equipment.
ITER has unique vacuum pumping requirements due to high throughput tritium operation. The ITER tokamak, cryostat, and auxiliary vacuum volumes must be evacuated prior to the start of plasma operations using the roughing pump system. The roughing pump system supports the vacuum auxiliary system in providing vacuum and process gasses during operations.
For more information, contact:
Ainsley Hart - Interim Team Manager, Vacuum Auxiliary and Roughing Pumps Systems - US ITER
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- Central Solenoid
- Diagnostics
- Disruption Mitigation System
- Electron Cyclotron Heating Transmission Lines
- Instrumentation and Controls
- Ion Cyclotron Transmission Lines
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- Port Integration
- Steady State Electrical Network
- Tokamak Cooling Water System
- Tokamak Exhaust Processing System
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