The fifth module is lowered toward the existing central solenoid magnet stack, with a crew in an aerial work platform carefully monitoring its movement.
The fifth module has been placed on the central solenoid magnet stack in the ITER Assembly Hall. See a video of the delicate operation of moving and positioning the 121-ton module into place.
The sixth and final module, delivered to ITER in September, is scheduled to be moved into place at the top of the stack this spring. Next a compression structure, tasked with applying downward precompression on the module stack, will be put in place. The completed central solenoid will then remain on its platform in the Assembly Hall until all nine vacuum vessel sector modules are installed, and then will be moved into the center of the tokamak pit.
Designed and fabricated by the United States, the first-of-its-kind pulsed superconducting magnet will generate a magnetic field that will induce and maintain a powerful pulsed current in the plasma and also help control and shape the plasma.
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