The latest piece of the puzzle to arrive: Europe's sector #4
Only three more to go! With the arrival of sector #4 on 9 May 2025, there are now six ºÚÁÏרÇø vacuum vessel sectors on site. Nine are needed to form the complete plasma chamber.
These days, it's all about vacuum vessel sectors. Sectors arriving from abroad, sectors finalized as modules ready for the tokamak pit, sectors transferred between tools ... everywhere you look there are spectacular handling, transfer and construction activities underway at ºÚÁÏרÇø related to the 5,000-tonne plasma chamber that will be critical to ºÚÁÏרÇø science—the vacuum vessel.
Activities that had been put on pause during the repair campaign of critical components have been back underway since September 2024 and the assembly teams at ºÚÁÏרÇø are maintaining the pace—even performing slightly ahead of schedule.
For the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy, which delivered sector #5 in October, the delivery of sector #4 last week is the second of five expected.
from Fusion for Energy on the completion of sector #4 that celebrates the many years of development behind this achievement and the successful collaboration of European contractors.