Preliminary Research of Manufacturing Technology for ITER Magnet Supports

Abstract

The International Thermal Experiment Reactor (ITER) is designed to operate for 20 years with high safety requirements. The magnets with their total weight being about 10,000t sit at the core of the ITER machine. In order to guarantee the safety of the ITER machine, the research of the manufacturing technology for ITER magnet supports (MS) is an indispensable working procedure before the MS are produced. The MS consist of toroidal field (TF) gravity supports (GS), poloidal field (PF) supports and correction coils (CC) supports. This paper summarizes that the preliminary research results for the manufacturing of the GS with thermal anchor, the reliable method to manufacture the U-shaped clamp with tapered slots for PF coil supports and the special devices for test of full-size fasteners used in all the MS.