Toshiba Completes ITER Field Coil
Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation of Japan said Tuesday it had completed its first manufacturing of a toroidal field coil for ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, which is under construction in southern France.
The toroidal field coils are huge superconducting magnets that are required to contain the vast amounts of plasma energy created by the fusion reactor in what is considered a mega-project involving funding from The European Union, the United States, Japan, China, Russia, South Korea and India).
Toshiba completed the construction of the first coil case in December 2018. The first field coil itself has been entrusted by the National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology as one of the largest of its kind in the world. This coil measures 16.5 meters in length, 9 meters in width. It weighs approximately 300 tons, Toshiba said.
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