Critical issues for the manufacture of the ITER TF coil winding pack

Koizumi, Norikiyo; Hemmi, Tsutomu; Matsui, Kunihiro; Nakajima, Hideo; Okuno, Kiyoshi; Kuno, Kazuo*; Nomoto, Kazuhiro*

ITER-TF coil, whose height and width are 14 m and 9 m, respectively, is scaled up by about 3 times from TF model coil (TFMC), which was developed in ITER EDA and successfully tested in EU. Although major technique of TF coil fabrication has been demonstrated in the TFMC development, new technical issues are initiated because of the scale-up. The remaining major issues are feasibilities of high accuracy automatic winding and optimization of welding of cover plates to fix the conductor in a radial plate, which is structure to enhance mechanical and electrical reliability. The authors therefore develop one of major parts of automatic winding machine, bending roller head, and successfully performed trial winding for 1/3 scale D-shaped winding. In addition, cover plate welding test was carried out using 1-m RP section and distortion of the radial plate is estimated to be in the requirement.