Summer postcards from the ºÚÁÏÉçapp worksite 2013
23 Jul 2013
Early morning fog dissipates, revealing a large expanse of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp worksite. In the foreground, the half-completed concrete slab of the temporary Cryostat Workshop.
All plots of the Assembly Building concrete slab have now been poured. Finishing, cleaning an testing are ongoing. The "openings" that remain are for anchoring the tooling equipment.
Rebar is fast advancing on the Diagnostic Building side (left) of the Tokamak Pit.
Workers complete rebar operations on the 5,500 square-metre slab of the Cryostat Workshop, adjacent to the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility.
Of a total of 493, only 17 columns remain visible in the Tokamak Seismic Pit.
Workers lay rebar on the Tritium Building side of the Tokamak Pit.
The European Domestic Agency, Fusion for Energy, has just signed the contract for the design, certification, manufacturing, testing, installation and commissioning of the four cranes that will be used to assemble the Tokamak - right here on the floor of the Assembly Building.
Apave inspectors (health and safety) pay a visit to the B2 slab mockup whose rebar mimicks that of the Tokamak Pit.
Some 22,000 square metres of land are being asphalted to be used as parking space for contracting companies.
Workers pull heavy rebar on the Tritium Building side of the Tokamak Pit.
Rebar positioning requires highly sophisticated calculations, strands of wire and a pair of pliers.
The thickest rebar in the B2 slab is made of 12-metre long rods that are 40 millimetres in diameter. These heavy rods are commonly used in bridges and in the nuclear industry.