🎯 After the challenging on-site works carried out at ITER site, the consortium made by SIMIC and Ansaldo Nucleare successfully repaired the first Vacuum Vessel Sector and the assembly is finally back on track at ITER!  

✅ The Vacuum Vessel Sector #7 is now free from scaffolding, with its geometry fully restored and in line with the ITER schedule.

✅ The repair of the dimensional non-conformities consisted of grinding the bevel joint regions, followed by manual metal build-up and final machining to restore the bevels’ nominal dimensions and recover the ability to weld the sectors together.

✅ From a strict industrial point of view, simplifying we could say that it is like filling the “valleys” or shaving the “hills” along the bevel joint region.

👉 Work continues across Sectors #6, #8 and #1 as assembly operations advance; on Sector #8 we have also implemented the Robotic Welding.

🤝 Thanks to every single person and to all the teams that worked together and incessantly to accomplish this first important Milestone!

Stay tuned as SIMIC moves on in this ambitious project to fully support the ITER fusion energy goals!