Speaker
Ladislav Vala
(Centrum výzkumu Řež)
Description
The Test Blanket Module (TBM) and its associated ancillary systems (including cooling systems, tritium extraction system, coolant purification, PbLi loop, I&C) form the Test Blanket System (TBS). The TBSs will be fully integrated in the ITER machine and buildings. Therefore, testing of the TBS integration and maintenance in ITER port cell prior to its installation and operation in the ITER machine is one of the keys points to ensure success of the TBM program. A feasibility of all the planned TBS maintenance, installation and inspection operations in the port cell should be proven first, which will require also their demonstration at dedicated large scale mock-ups.
A full scale test platform reproducing the ITER equatorial port cell #16, corresponding TBS interfaces and the main components was designed and manufactured in Centrum výzkumu Řež (CVR). The platform was designed in a way to offer testing, optimization and validation of the TBS related maintenance tools, operations and procedures to be performed in the port cell. Moreover, it allows also testing of accessibility conditions to various interfaces and components inside the port cell. Although it reproduces the TBS interfaces and the main equipment corresponding to the European TBS configuration, its modular design makes it possible to adapt them so that other, non-EU TBS configurations could be testes at the platform as well.
The paper describes the current status of a project of the full scale test platform for integration and maintenance tests of the European TBM systems in ITER port cell #16. It contains also description of its design, parameters, characteristics and the first operational experience.
Co-authors
Ladislav Vala
(Centrum výzkumu Řež, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic)
Martin Vician
(Centrum výzkumu Řež, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic)
Mathieu Reungoat
(Centrum výzkumu Řež, Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic)
