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US delivers the final 135-ton magnet module for the world’s largest fusion reactor at ITER in France

A 135-ton superconducting magnet module, the last of six built in the United States for the ITER fusion reactor, has arrived at the project’s construction site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance in southern ...
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ITER’s central solenoid — a 59-foot stack of six superconducting modules wound from 36 km of cable — is one module away from completion

Inside a climate-controlled facility in Poway, California, engineers at General Atomics are winding the last operational module of the most powerful pulsed magnet ever designed. When that sixth module ...
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Iter’s giant fusion reactor in southern France hits a major assembly milestone with vacuum chamber module 5

In the hills of southern France, far from daily political drama and market headlines, a single engineering move is quietly reshaping what “possible” looks like for nuclear fusion. At the ITER site ...
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General Atomics Completes Fabrication and Testing of First ITER Central Solenoid Module

(MENAFN- GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) San Diego, Feb. 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- After nearly five years of fabrication and a battery of rigorous testing and troubleshooting, General Atomics (GA) has ...