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Six massive magnets will embrace the ITER machine from top to bottom to control the shape and stability of its plasma. Europe is responsible for five out of the six Poloidal Field (PF) coils, one of them being manufactured in China. In line with the spirit of the ITER project, the biggest international collaboration in the field of energy, F4E and ASIPP, The Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Hefei, have signed an agreement to manufacture this coil together in order to mutually benefit from their expertise and deliver the component faster.
The first poloidal field coil to be installed during the ITER machine assembly phase may be one of the smallest in terms of lateral dimensions, but it tops out its five sister coils in weight due to the number of stacked layers (or double pancakes) that go into its construction. |