First Magnetic Body of International Artificial Sun Fusion Reactor Hoisted

The No. 6 poloidal field superconducting coil, also known as the PF6 coil, the fourth major component of the tokamak device of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, was recently hoisted in France.

The hoisting marked the beginning of the installation of the facility's magnetic system.

The PF6 coil, developed by the Institute of Plasma Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, weighs 400 tons, making it the heaviest of the ITER's superconducting magnets.

It is also one of the world's heaviest and hardest-to-build magnets of its kind.

The first large superconducting magnet coil to be installed on the ITER, the PF6 coil is key to the stable performance of the plasma, which is crucial to operation of the ITER facility.

The installation is a key part of ITER's TAC1 project contracted by the Sino-French consortium led by China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corporation.

The PF6 coil, the fourth major component of the tokamak device of the ITER project, is hoisted. [Photo/sasac.gov.cn]

(Executive editor: Wang Ruoting)