The ITER Tokamak will be the largest ever built, with a plasma volume of 840 cubic meters and a weight of 23,000 tons. The maximum plasma volume in current tokamaks is 100 cubic meters – achieved by both Europe’s JET and Japan’s JT-60. ITER members will share hardware procurements for the design and construction of this record-breaking device.
U.S. hardware contributions to the ITER project include design and fabrication for:
US Hardware
- Port Integration
- Vacuum Auxiliary and Roughing Pumps Systems
- Steady State Electrical Network
- Central Solenoid
- Toroidal Field Conductor
- Ion Cyclotron Heating Transmission Lines
- Instrumentation and Controls
- Pellet Injection (Fueling) System
- Tokamak Exhaust Processing System
- Electron Cyclotron Heating Transmission Lines
- Disruption Mitigation System
- Diagnostics
- Tokamak Cooling Water System