#121 More Defective ITER Reactor Sectors
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By Steven B. Krivit
April 28, 2022
Four, not two, sectors of the ITER reactor vessel have elements with defects, New Energy Times learned today.
On Feb. 21, 2022, we had reported news of damaged sectors based on translated statements from the French nuclear regulator ASN.
One statement read, “Falling elements of sectors of the vacuum chamber: Elements of the Sectors of the vacuum chamber fell during handling on the manufacturing sites, in South Korea in April 2021 and in Italy in May 2021.”
Today, we learned from Evangelia Petit, the press representative for ASN, that the “falling of parts of sectors in South Korea and Italy relates to other sectors that are still in the course of manufacture.”
“The sectors affected by the dimensional nonconformities, sector #6 and sector #7, were the first two sectors that arrived at the ITER building site,” Petit wrote.
Hyundai Heavy Industries, the manufacturer of the Korean sectors, detected the dimensional nonconformities in sector #6 two years ago, in May 2020, according to an ASN letter.
Petit declined our request to identify, by sector number, the sectors that are associated with falling parts.
