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A parallel focus of the ITER visit was to gain a sense of the importance of Europe’s leadership in ITER’s global partnership. “Europe is contributing almost half the costs of ITER’s construction, and roughly 90% of contributions to the project are made in kind, in the form of buildings, systems and components. Europe’s role as host therefore propels European companies to the forefront of innovation in the multiple cutting-edge fields required to make ITER successful, beyond the field of fusion or even energy research, expanding to the aeronautic and medical sectors, among others,” said Garribba. Schwemmer informed MEPs about
concrete European in-kind contributions that have been manufactured across the continent, showing the economic and technological importance of ITER for European industries and research centres. Garribba is deputy director-general for the Energy Directorate-General in the European Commission, and was elected chair of the ITER Council in November 2021. Following an extended period of building construction and component design and manufacturing, the ITER Project entered Assembly Phase in July 2020. In total, more than one million components, some weighing several hundred tons and requiring years to complete, are being fabricated on three continents and shipped
to the ITER site in the South of France. Visiting MEPs were able to gain a first-
hand view of the scale and complexity of machine assembly, from colossal superconductor magnets being coupled with massive sections of the ITER vacuum vessel to the Tokamak Pit itself, where each component will take its final position in the intricate puzzle designed to generate full fusion power in the years to come. The next stage of development will see
Enerpac’s EVO synchronous lifting pump lift the circular poloidal magnet (PF6) into position in the final construction of the ITER fusion Tokamak in 2024. The PF6 magnet is situated at the bottom of a vessel
on temporary supports while the ITER Tokamak is constructed above it. “We are faced with a challenging
problem: how to lift the PF6 ring to its final position and bolt it to the Tokamak structure within tight space constraints and without access to a crane,” said Nello Dolgetta, part of the ITER Magnet Section team. “To raise the PF6 ring by 2m, we are performing a synchronised lift using the Enerpac single acting locknut cylinders and EVO system to provide a safe and secure lift operation.” Other firms involved in ITER include; ABUS, MC Levage, Donati, Demag, Vernazza, Foselev, Lafont, REEL, JASO, Cimolai and Danieli, to name a few. ●
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