China Nuclear Power-Led Group Wins Core Deal in ITER, World's Biggest Fusion Reactor
Xu Wei
DATE:  Jul 20 2019
/ SOURCE:  yicai
China Nuclear Power-Led Group Wins Core Deal in ITER, World's Biggest Fusion Reactor China Nuclear Power-Led Group Wins Core Deal in ITER, World's Biggest Fusion Reactor

(Yicai Global) July 19 -- France's International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, the world's largest fusion experiment participated by various countries including the US and India, has chosen an international consortium led by China Nuclear Power Engineering to install the core equipment close to the reactor, which will become the first large international nuclear project for China.

China National Nuclear, the parent of CNPE, received a notice about winning the engineering, procurement and construction bid regarding the Tokamak Assembly Contract No. 01, TAC1, Science and Technology Daily reported yesterday. 

ITER, located in southern France, may be the world's most complex science project as the reactor has more than 10 million parts. The European Union, Russia and South Korea are some of the nations that have joined hands to build the massive nuclear plant over a decade. 

TAC1 is ITER's largest contract to date, and it has uttermost importance in terms of testing the tokamak, a magnetic fusion device, Wen Jingwu, CNPE's senior engineer and head of TAC1 work told the same newspaper. The consortium will install a cryostat and connecting systems, designed to cool down the reactor.

The deal marks the first for a Chinese company in terms of big nuclear EPC contracts abroad, said the Beijing-based firm's vice general manager Li Qiang.

The consortium consists of France's Framatome, CNNC's Southwestern Institute of Physics, China Nuclear Industry 23 Construction, Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 

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Keywords:   CNNC,ITER,China Nuclear Power