Water-cooled Bus Bars for the JET Divertors

Babcock Noell delivered and installed the entire water-cooled bus bar system of the divertor coil in the European fusion experiment, JET. The main task of the divertor is the removal of contaminants from the plasma.


Customer:
JET (Joint European Torus), Culham (Great Britain)

Duration of project: 1992 – 1993

Technical Data of the Bus Bars:

Test Voltage:40 kV DC
Test Pressure:50 bar
Copper Cross Section:35 mm x 82 mm
Total Length:400 m
Weight of Copper/Steel:10,000 kg / 7,000 kg


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