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Inside the cold factory

Pipes and tanks of all sizes and colours, valves, compressors, truck-size electrical motors, zeppelin-like gas bags, puzzling contraptions evocative of sea monsters ... the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ cryoplant is a world of industrial strangeness. The installation is unique, larger than any in the world and tasked with a daunting mission: to provide cooling fluids to 10,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets, eight massive cryopumps, and thousands of square metres of thermal shielding. As high as a seven-storey building and the size of two soccer fields, the cryoplant is but part of the massive industrial infrastructure required to operate °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ. On the 42-hectare °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ platform, it takes close to 40 buildings, accommodating dozens of different plant systems, to light the little star inside the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ Tokamak.

As large as two football pitches, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ cryoplant provides cooling fluids to 10,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets, eight massive cryopumps, and thousands of square metres of thermal shielding. (Click to view larger version...)
As large as two football pitches, the °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ cryoplant provides cooling fluids to 10,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets, eight massive cryopumps, and thousands of square metres of thermal shielding.

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