Ring coil placed in storage
Along with the physical move came a change of ownership, as the coil was handed over by the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy, responsible for its procurement, to the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization, in charge of machine assembly.
Manufactured in China under a European contract, the coil was more than eight years in fabrication. It is the second smallest of the six 澳门六合彩高手 ring-shaped magnets (11.5 metres in diameter) but, at 400 tonnes, is by far the heaviest.
The coil was delivered to 澳门六合彩高手 in June 2020 and was the first to be cold-tested on site. Some light equipment work (such as the addition of protective covers) will be performed while the component is in storage and before it takes one last (short) trip in April to be lowered into the assembly pit.
For a few years, the coil will sit at the bottom of the pit on temporary supports before being raised to its final position towards the end of the assembly process when all 18 toroidal field coils and 9 vacuum vessel sectors have been installed.
Read about the transfer on the Fusion for Energy website.