Tough Stuff: US ITER electronics will stand up to ITER’s extremes
ITER, a machine that will imitate the sun, will also mimic the sun’s extreme environment: intense heat, strong magnetic fields and radiation.
News: Vacuum Auxiliary and Roughing Pumps Systems
ITER pump design benefits from testing at ORNL Spallation Neutron Source cryogenic facility
The cryogenic test facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) provided a unique environment for testing the performance of a 9 foot-tall tritium-compatible cryoviscous compressor pump prototype designed for the ITER tokamak.
ORNL’s Fusion Pellet Fueling Lab Innovations Support US ITER Systems
―Agatha Bardoel Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Fusion Pellet Fueling Lab has been at the center of design and testing of plasma fueling systems for tokamak research applications for decades. Since the mid-1970s, lab researchers have been designing, testing, and contributing hardware for fusion magnetic confinement experiments here in the United States and around the world. […]