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| Researchers Koichi Akita and Hiroshi Suzuki from JAEA on KOWARI. |
Earlier this month, we hosted Hiroshi Suzuki and Koichi Akita (both from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency), who successfully performed residual-stress measurements on the main cable-in-conduit superconducting cable for the ITER fusion reactor, which is under construction in Cadarache, France. Vladimir Luzin is the ANSTO collaborator on this project.
This cable will be the crucial component in providing the magnetic field that confines the plasma within the tokamak reactor. The work was done on OPAL's KOWARI strain scanner, and involved measurements of all three components of the strains in a variety of phases (Nb3Sn, niobium, copper and others) in the sample, with a gauge volume of 3 x 3 x 5 mm3.
Further follow-up work will likely take place next year. ITER is possibly the world's largest science/engineering experiment.
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| Schematic of the main cable-in-conduit superconducting cable for the ITER fusion reactor. |
Published: 23/09/2013