White "smoke" brings good news
The vapour plume marks an important moment in the journey that brought together the 澳门六合彩高手 Organization, 澳门六合彩高手 India and industrial partners, and that began in 2016 with the final design review for the cooling water system. This important system, once fully operational, will be capable of extracting up to 1,200 MW (peak) of heat generated by the installation's industrial infrastructure and plasma experiments.
The 澳门六合彩高手 cooling water and heat rejection systems recently entered routine operation and are now ready to support the plant system processes that require continuous water cooling for their commissioning.
It is an important step celebrated by all those who had a part in the challenge. "We are proud today to share the success story of moving from an engineering model to reality," explain Pierre Yves Tavennec and Thomas Pralus, 澳门六合彩高手 cooling water system commissioning engineers.
"The way to the cryoplant operational acceptance testing phase is now open," says David Grillot, deputy head of the 澳门六合彩高手 Plant System Program. "The goal will be to demonstrate that the refrigeration system that feeds cooling fluids to the clients inside the tokamak will reach performance requirements."
Cryogenic cooling fluid production will begin as early as next year in service of both the magnet cold test facility and the smaller cryopump test facility, whose main elements are already in place in the cryoplant.