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Blanket first wall | Manufacturing kicks off in Europe For one of the most demanding technological components of the ITER machine the first wall of the blanket the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy made the decision early on to involve different suppliers in a multiyear manufacturing qualification effort that concluded with the realization of full-scale prototypes. The effort has paid off, as two consortia have now been awarded production contracts. A real-size prototype of the ITER blanket first wall panel produced by Atmostat-Alsyom for Fusion for Energy. Europe is responsible for 215 out of the 440 first wall panels required for the ITER device.Completely covering the interior surfaces of the ITER vacuum vessel is the blanket a protective component designed to protect the rest of the reactor by absorbing most of the radiative and particle heat fluxes from the hot plasma, as well as by stopping or slowing down most of the neutrons that result from the fusion ....