F4E awards 24.5 million EUR contract for superconducting niobium-tin wire

Fusion for Energy has awarded a 24.5 million EUR contract for the supply of 37 tons of high-performance superconducting niobium-tin wire to the Bruker EAS GmbH subsidiary in Hanau. The niobium-tin strand wire will be used to make superconducting magnets that will confine the plasma in ITER. The deliveries are foreseen to begin during the second half of 2010, and phased over the next 30 months thereafter.

This contract is the last of several contracts concerning Europe’s contribution of conductors to ITER. In total, all these F4E contracts mean the production of 95 tons of niobium-tin wire.