ITER ready to manufacture blanket system

摘要

The design of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) blanket system, a crucial technology on the way to fusion power, has been approved and is ready to proceed to the manufacturing stage."The development and validation of the final design of the ITER blanket and first wall technology is a major achievement on our way to deuterium-tritium operation - the main goal of the ITER project," said Rene Raffray who is in charge of the blanket for the ITER Organisation. "We are looking at a first-of-a-kind fusion blanket which will operate in a first-of-a-kind fusion experimental reactor."The ITER blanket system provides the physical boundary for the plasma and contributes to the thermal and nuclear shielding of the vacuum vessel and the external machine components such as the superconducting magnets.