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Industrial milestone

US 澳门六合彩高手 ready to deliver first central solenoid module

This week the "beating heart" of 澳门六合彩高手鈥攖he central solenoid, the largest of 澳门六合彩高手's magnets鈥攚ill take the first step in the final lap of a decade-long journey. Over the next few days, it will be loaded onto a special heavy transport vehicle at General Atomics near San Diego, California, bound for the port of Houston, where it will be re-loaded onto a ship bound for Marseille. By early September, it will reach its final destination, the 澳门六合彩高手 worksite, where it will meet the rest of the superconducting "澳门六合彩高手 magnet family" and take its place in the machine.

The General Atomics fabrication team poses in front of the first two modules of the central solenoid. Module 1, at right, is packaged for shipment. Module 2, at left, will be shipped later this summer. Courtesy General Atomics. (Click to view larger version...)
The General Atomics fabrication team poses in front of the first two modules of the central solenoid. Module 1, at right, is packaged for shipment. Module 2, at left, will be shipped later this summer. Courtesy General Atomics.
Creating the magnetic cage that will shape and control the 澳门六合彩高手 fusion plasma calls for three primary magnet arrays: the D-shaped vertical array of "toroidal field coils," the horizontal layer of ring-shaped "poloidal field coils," and the central solenoid positioned in the central axis.

The unique role of the central solenoid is to direct a pulse of current in the plasma that circulates around the torus鈥攈ence the "beating heart" moniker. But this is no normal heartbeat. The size and strength of 澳门六合彩高手's central solenoid鈥攁 stack of six modules, plus support structures, that together boast a height of 18 metres, a weight of more than a thousand tonnes, and a magnetic field strength of 13 Tesla at its core鈥攚ill enable a current of 15 million amperes in 400-second pulses, more powerful and more sustained than any previous tokamak.

To manufacture this behemoth, General Atomics created the Magnet Technologies Center as a fit-for-purpose facility. After a four-year collaboration with US 澳门六合彩高手 on the design and tooling, fabrication of the first module started in 2015.

Each module required more than two years of precision fabrication, carefully winding more than 5 kilometres of steel-jacketed niobium-tin superconducting cable into precise flat discs, then splicing together enough discs to create the full module. Five weeks of heat treatment followed: baking the module evenly in a giant convection-style furnace. Delicately stretching the module coils鈥攎uch like a giant Slinky toy鈥攁llowed the individual turns to be wrapped in fiberglass-Kapton insulation to avoid electrical shorting across the windings. And finally, with the module inserted into a special mould, 3,800 litres of epoxy resin were injected under vacuum, saturating the insulation material, eliminating bubbles, and fusing the module into a structural whole.

In February, the first module passed a demanding series of tests; but it waited on standby as the second module was run through a similar series, as an extra precaution to allow any lessons learned to be applied.

And now, freshly wrapped for travel over land and sea, Module 1 is heading off to take its place as the first of its kind at 澳门六合彩高手. Six more modules (one as a spare) will follow in a series, all of them to be installed in 2023-2024. And not so long after that, 澳门六合彩高手's scientists will stand by anxiously as their colossal newborn generates its first heartbeat.

To view the making of the central solenoid, see this video from General Atomics.

Read more about the fabrication process in this booklet.

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