Roof of assembly hall for future ITER nuclear reactor successfully installed

At Cadarache (south of France), the roof of the assembly hall for the future ITER thermonuclear fusion reactor was raised into its final position on 11 September.

This steel structure, weighing 800 tonnes, was pre-assembled on the ground and then lifted, with the help of strand jacks, to a height of 50 metres. The construction of this assembly hall and of the building that will house the future Tokamak reactor form part of contract TB03, which is being implemented by a consortium led by VINCI (58.3%, with VINCI Construction Grands Projets, VINCI Construction France and Dodin Campenon Bernard), working together with Spanish construction company Ferrovial Agroman (30%) and Razel-Bec (Fayat, 11.7%).

The big lift: www.iter.org/video/328

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