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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 2001