Image of the week
In the belly of the (flying) whale
19 Feb 2018
For an aircraft with a lifting capacity of up to 150 tonnes, "Isabelle" and "Jeanne" at 30 tonnes each representetd a rather light load. Transport from CEA-Saclay, where the coils were cold tested, to the departing airport close to Paris and to Nagoya was handled by logistics provider DAHER. © DAHER-Acapella.
On 15 February, "Isabelle" and "Jeanne," the last of the ten toroidal field coils manufactured in France for the EU-Japan tokamak JT-60SA, were swallowed into the cargo bay of a giant Antonov 124 bound for Nagoya, Japan. They arrived the next day at their destination (see a full report ).
The tokamak, which is being assembled in Naka, is part of the agreement signed between Japan and Euratom, and implemented by QST Japan and the European Domestic Agency for °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¸ßÊÖ.