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(ITER/5) Remote Handling Maintenance of ITER

   
R. Haange  and the ITER Joint Central Team  and the ITER Home Teams 
 
ITER Joint Central Team, Naka Joint Work Site 801-1, Mukouyama, Naka-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken, 311-0193 Japan

Abstract
The remote maintenance strategy and the associated component design of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER ) have reached a high degree of completeness, especially with respect to those components that are expected to require frequent or occasional remote maintenance. Large-scale test stands, to demonstrate the principle feasibility of the remote maintenance procedures and to develop the required equipment and tools, were operational at the end of the Engineering Design Activities (EDA) phase. The initial results are highly encouraging: major remote equipment deployment and component replacement operations have been successfully demonstrated.

   

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IAEA 1999