65Bloomberg Businessweek � Tech November 4, 2019⊲ An 800-metric-ton tool
will preassemble some of
ITER’s largest components
before a crane lifts them into
the machine well. The tool’s
three columns are arranged
in a triangle, shown on the
right side of the image.⊲ On a circular table,
lengths of up to 900 meters
(2,950 feet) of niobium-
titanium superconductor
are looped into the magnetic
poloidal field coils, which
carry the power needed
to cool the outside of the
plasma container. ITER
will have six of these coils;
four are being built on-site
because they’re too big to
be shipped in. Russia will
supply PF1, and PF6 is
coming from China.65Bloomberg Businessweek � Tech November 4, 2019
⊲ An 800-metric-ton tool
will preassemble some of
ITER’s largest components
before a crane lifts them into
the machine well. The tool’s
three columns are arranged
in a triangle, shown on the
right side of the image.
⊲ On a circular table,
lengths of up to 900 meters
(2,950 feet) of niobium-
titanium superconductor
are looped into the magnetic
poloidal field coils, which
carry the power needed
to cool the outside of the
plasma container. ITER
will have six of these coils;
four are being built on-site
because they’re too big to
be shipped in. Russia will
supply PF1, and PF6 is
coming from China.