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A more open future for nuclear research
A growing number of institutional, national, and funder mandates are requiring researchers to make their published work immediately publicly accessible, through either open repositories or open access (OA) publications. In addition, both private and public funders are developing policies, such as those from the Office of Science and Technology Policy and the European Commission, that ask researchers to make publicly available at the time of publication as much of their underlying data and other materials as possible. These, combined with movement in the scientific community toward embracing open science principles (seen, for example, in the dramatic rise of preprint servers like arXiv), demonstrate a need for a different kind of publishing outlet.
K. Koizumi, M. Nakahira, K. Oka, Y. Itou, H. Takahashi, E. Tada, K. Ioki, G. Johnson, M. Onozuka, Y. Utin, G. Sannazzaro, F. Elio, K. Takahashi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 586-590
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963677
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Fabrication of a full-scale sector model of the ITER vacuum vessel, which was initiated in 1995 as one of the Large Seven ITER R&D Projects, was completed in September 1997. The full-scale sector model corresponds to an 18° toroidal sector, is composed of two 9° sectors, Sector A and B, which are spliced at the port center according to the current ITER design. In order to satisfy tight manufacturing tolerances of ± 5 mm and to assure the structural integrity of a double-walled structure, a combination of Gas Tungsten Arc (TIG)/Electron Beam (EB) welding and TIG/Gas Metal Arc (MIG) welding were adopted for Sector-A and B, respectively. Although the different fabrication procedures and welding techniques were employed for the fabrication, both sectors have successfully satisfied the dimensional accuracy of ± 3 mm for the total height, total width and total wall thickness. After the completion of fabrication, both sectors were shipped to the test site in Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and assembly test was begun in October 1997. The first demonstration test of automatic narrow gap TIG welding of the field joints between sectors was successfully completed at the end of May 1998. This paper outlines the design and fabrication procedures and describes the results of the fabrication and assembly test of Sector A and B.