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AMEC has won an EFDA-funded project to scale up their innovative HIP (Hot Isostatic Pressing) process to bond the beryllium tiles to a full size prototype ITER first wall panel. This type of panel will be used to cover the majority of the plasma facing wall of ITER. Work on earlier, small scale, prototypes has shown that components manufactured using HIP can withstand heat flux levels of 1.5 MW/m2 for over a thousand cycles. The full size panel will be heat flux tested to prove that the HIP manufacturing technique is able to produce bonds that can withstand the 30,000 cycles at 0.5 MW/m2 set for the ITER design.
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Full scale ITER first wall panel
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View of the inside of the JET torus with plasma image superimposed on the right hand half
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First Sight Vision Ltd, part of the Stemmer Imaging Group, Europe's largest vision supplier, has won a contract to provide colour and monochrome Firewire cameras with optical
repeaters, cabling and software for a JET machine diagnostic. The new systems will give JET scientists improved signal and image processing for the torus and divertor.
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Europe's network of fusion Industry Liaison Officers (ILOs) is focusing its efforts on encouraging suitably qualified companies from their respective countries to register their capabilities on Europe’s Industrial Database for ITER. The ILO group is also forging closer links with the ITER International Organisation in Cadarache and the Fusion for Energy (F4E) team in Barcelona. “Our primary objective is to encourage European companies to bid for work packages that will be appearing especially from F4E to enable Europe to deliver its ‘in-kind’ contribution to the ITER programme”, said Dan Mistry, the UK's ILO and Deputy Chair of the network.
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ILO meeting, December 2007
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The annual UK-wide series of Technology and Innovation exhibitions returns to UKAEA Culham for the 7th year running on 15th May 2008, with a line up of both new and regular exhibitors. Exhibtion space is rapidly filling up but some spaces are still available.
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Magnetic resonance imaging specialist, Laplacian Ltd, has developed a luggable scanner for conducting resonance imaging of tree trunks subjected to drought and deluge conditions, as part of a tree physiology project at the University of Surrey. Developed with the assistance of the UK Fusion programme's technical support package, the scanner can be used on tree trunks up to 200 mm diameter and provides complete imaging of the trunk.
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Final magnet, ready for lab tests
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We continue our series of profiles to introduce fusion engineers to UK plc. with Robert Shaw, who is leader of the ITER assembly section, which covers the assembly and installation of all mechanical systems on the ITER site.
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| Views expressed in Fusion Business do not necessarily reflect those of the EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association. no liability is accepted whatsoever for errors or omissions in Fusion Business. This work is funded jointly by the United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences research Council (EPSRC) and by EURATOM. If you would like to comment on the content of this ezine, please contact: nick.holloway@ccfe.ac.uk |
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