This week the fifth 110-tonne module of ITER’s central solenoid magnet was loaded at the manufacture site in California for transport to the ITER site in southern France.
Manufactured by General Atomics on behalf of US ITER, the module is one of six being stacked vertically to form the central solenoid. Considered the heart of the ITER tokamak, the central solenoid will induce the majority of the magnetic flux change needed to initiate the plasma, generate the plasma current, and maintain this current during the burn time.
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