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ITER receives Hyundai-made vacuum vessel to house nuclear reactions

Manufactured by Hyundai Heavy Industries, this vacuum vessel sector will provide a high-vacuum environment for fusion plasma.

Manufactured by Hyundai Heavy Industries at the company’s giant shipyard in Ulsan, the vacuum vessel sector will act as the primary confinement barrier for radioactivity, and provide support for in-vessel components such as the blanket and the divertor. ITER claims that in a tokamak device, the larger the vacuum chamber volume, the easier it is to confine the plasma and achieve the type of high-energy regime that will produce significant fusion power. The last sector took to the sea on 24 August 2024 and, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of the African continent and sailing all the way north to the Strait of Gibraltar and into the Mediterranean, passed through the ITER gates last Friday 8 November.

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