Design and manufacture of the ITER Vacuum Vessel

Author

Sborchia, C. ; Ioki, K. ; Ahn, H.J. ; Alekseev, A. ; Bayon, A. ; Barabash, V. ; Choi, C.H. ; Daly, Eamonn ; Dani, S. ; Davis, J. ; Encheva, A. ; Fabritsiev, S. ; Giraud, Bastien ; Hamlyn-Harris, C. ; Kuzmin, E. ; Jucker, P. ; Jun, C. ; Kim, B.C. ; Le Barb

Author_Institution

ITER Organ., St. Paul-lez-Durance, France

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

The main functions of the ITER Vacuum Vessel (VV) are to provide the necessary vacuum for plasma operation, act as first nuclear confinement barrier and remove nuclear heating. The design of the VV has been reviewed in the past two years due to more advanced analyses, design modifications required by the interfacing components and R&D. Following the signature of four Procurement Arrangement (PAs), the manufacturing design of the VV sectors, ports and In-Wall Shielding (IWS) is being finalized and the fabrication of the VV sectors has been started in 2012.

Keywords

fusion reactor design; fusion reactor instrumentation; plasma toroidal confinement; ITER vacuum vessel design; ITER vacuum vessel manufacture; in-wall shielding; manufacturing design; nuclear confinement barrier; nuclear heating; plasma operation; procurement arrangement; Assembly; Coils; Cooling; Inspection; Rails; Welding; in-vessel coils; in-wall shielding; manufacturing design; procurement arrangement; vacuum vessel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fusion Engineering (SOFE), 2013 IEEE 25th Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0169-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SOFE.2013.6635466

Filename

6635466