And what did you do during the holidays?
Working on site during the annual office closure period is certainly not everyone's idea of an end-of-year holiday...
And yet a not-so-small team of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ staff volunteered to keep the wheels running and to keep pushing forward with the assembly of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ tokamak. On their list of tasks to advance in collaboration with contractors: installing the vacuum vessel thermal shield on sector #6, machining the intercoil structure for sector module #7, and the start of on-the-ground preparations for the assembly of sector module #5. The teams also began reinstalling repaired panels of the support thermal shield in the pit. These panels provide a thermal barrier between the toroidal field coil gravity supports and the vacuum vessel, and they must be positioned before vacuum vessel sector module #7 is lowered into the pit later this year (April).
See the Construction Gallery for a selection of photos.