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Title: Plasma vessel for Wendelstein 7-X ready
Post by: Orstio on January 22, 2006, 06:42:37 PM
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The first large production order for the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment, construction of the plasma chamber, has been successfully completed: The 20 sectors of the bizarrely shaped 35-ton vessel were assembled from several hundred individual components – an engineering masterpiece. Installation of the whole complex device, which started in spring 2005 at the Greifswald branch of Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), will take about six years.




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[TD bgColor=#336699][FONT color=#ffffff]Part of the plasma chamber of Wendelstein 7-X: Twenty of these elements are joined to form a ring shaped in keeping with the twisting contours of the plasma. The ports in the vessel grant access for heating and measuring facilities. (Photo: IPP, W. F. . .