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Newsletter | 2001 June

  • EFET, the European Industrial Support to ITER

    In 1993 the European Commission issued a call for tender for the European industrial support to the ITER Engineering Design Activities (EDA) being performed by the European ITER Home Team, now represented by the EFDA  Close Support Unit in Garching. Following a competitive tendering exercise involving European wide industry groupings [...]

  • The ITER Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) Test Preparations

    In 2000 the fabrication of the TFMC was completed by the European Consortium AGAN. The Intercoil Structure (ICS) was delivered in June 2000 to the Toroidal Coil Facility (TOSKA) test site at the Association EURATOMForschungszentrum Karlsruhe and the TFMC followed January 11, 2001. The TFMC was assembled with the ICS [...]

  • “The ITER Central Solenoid Model Coil is a Major Milestone”

    The large coils which will generate the major magnetic field components in ITER will all be superconducting. The high currents and long pulse duration would generate too much heating in conventional coils. However, the construction of superconducting coils with the required performance is a major technological challenge, so working prototypes [...]

  • Another Step towards Steady-State Tokamaks

    The Tore Supra Tokamak at the Association EURATOM-CEA (Cadarache, France) has pioneered the use of superconducting coils to generate its strong toroidal magnetic field. This is an important technology for future machines, since it opens the way to very long plasma pulses, and perhaps even steady state operation. This unique [...]

  • The Rise and Rise of High-Power Gyrotrons

    Fusion plasmas require many megawatts of heating to reach the temperatures at which fusion reactions occur. Gyrotrons are one of the  possible solutions. They are sources of high power, high frequency microwaves which can be absorbed in a very localised region of the plasma. The technique is attractive for various [...]

  • A Fusion Springboard to Commercial Success

    What happens when an SME (Small and Medium sized  Enterprise) realises that it has produced a high-tech product of potential value to fusion R&D? This case study shows how the development, encouraged by the fusion community, can be just the beginning. In the early 1970s, scientists at Queen Mary College [...]