Spie batignolles TPCI delivers the hangar to receive the cryostat pre-assembly

The cryostat is a cylindrically shaped stainless steel containment element that covers the vacuum chamber and superconducting magnets, creating an extremely cold (-273 ° C) vacuum environment. The crysotate constitutes a major component of the future solar fusion reactor; the Tokamak.

Osamu Motojima, Managing Director of Iter, Predhiman kan, member of Iter, Madhukar Vinayak Kotwal by Larsen & Toubro and Benoit Moncade, Managing Director of Spie batignolles TPCI were gathered for this inauguration.

The international ITER program consists of 7 members including China, the European Union, Japan, Korea, India and the United States. Each of these members relies on national agencies for their own management of in-kind supply.

Our Company Larsen & Toubro, appointed by the contracting authority ITER India and responsible for designing the cryostatic enclosure, entrusted the construction of the hangar intended to house this element to Spie batignolles TPCI.

Spie batignolles TPCI, already builder of the building PF Coïls Building for ITER, intervened in design-build and all trades on this building.

This building, 110 m long x 44 m wide x 27 m high, will receive the cryostat enclosure in 54 modules. They will arrive on site by sea from Bombay (India), then by road.

The building has a portal bridge capable of supporting loads of up to 200 tonnes.

14 months of work were needed by the Spie batignolles TPCI teams to build this impressive hangar.

Second building built by Spie batignolles TPCI on the ITER site

In 2010, Fusion for Energy had already confided to Spie batignolles TPCI, within a consortium, the design-build realization of an industrial building, called PF Coïls Building, dedicated to the manufacture of superconducting poloidal magnets.

In its offer, Spie batignolles TPCI did not provide a simple manufacturer's response, but positioned itself well beyond by imagining a plant capable of providing the best possible industrial performance given the future process.

This 253m long, 40m wide and 20m high building accommodates the manufacture of enormous coils of superconducting magnets in nobium-titanium. The framework of this building is made up of 17 reinforced concrete columns rising to more than 10m in height. These columns are firmly anchored in the ground over 4m deep.

They support an overhead crane, capable of handling coils up to 100 tonnes with millimeter precision, demonstrating the necessary performance requirements for this type of lifting system.

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