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Thursday, March 19, 2020

Upgrade Work Enters New Phase For Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X :: The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency

Upgrade Work Enters New Phase For Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X :: The Independent Global Nuclear News Agency: The next stage has begun of work to upgrade of the world’s largest stellarator-type fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany.



IPP said installation of new water-cooled inner cladding of the plasma vessel will make the Wendelstein 7-X facility suitable for higher heating power and longer plasma pulses.



The new cladding’s centrepiece, the so-called divertor, was manufactured by the institute’s Garching branch. It was delivered to Greifswald on 17 March and installation work will last until well into next year.

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