Morson Projects wins JET contract

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Manchester based Morson Projects has been awarded a €375,000 contract to design and manufacture a jig to be used in the build of JET's ITER-like wall project

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has been awarded a €375,000 contract to design and manufacture a jig to be used in the build of the

(JET) ITER-like wall (ILW) project.

The jig will ultimately be used to assemble two kilometres of diagnostics cabling through conduits in the torus. The new diagnostics cabling is part of an integrated package of JET enhancements, the aim of which is to develop an understanding of ITER torus materials issues.

The JET ILW project is replacing the existing JET carbon-fibre composite (CFC) tiles with a configuration of plasma facing materials consistent with the ITER torus design. Additional diagnostics are needed to assess erosion and migration of the main beryllium wall material, the behaviour of molten beryllium and its impact on the operation and integrity of the wall, fuel retention in beryllium tiles and interaction of beryllium with background oxygen. The new diagnostics will include thermocouples, visible and IR cameras, and analytical spectroscopic techniques.

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