The GDES Surface Treatment Business Unit has been awarded the contract for application of the coatings on the main building of the ITER project, the largest science and engineering project in the world.
GDES has been tasked with applying different types of coatings, combining scaffolding, auxiliary resources and rope access work over a total area of 120,000 m2, on both the Tokamak building and its two annex buildings, which will be used to achieve a deuterium-tritium plasma.
The different coatings to be applied include:
- Decontaminable and non-decontaminable coatings.
- Anti-carbonation coatings.
- Coatings with high resistance to chemicals and heavy traffic.
- Coatings with high resistance to irradiation.
- Coatings that meet additional electrostatic conductivity
requirements. - Coatings resistant to oils and specific chemical elements.
Highlights :
ITER (which in Latin means the “the way”) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world.
In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest Tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.
Project highlights:
- First Plasma in 2025, 600 seconds.
- First Nuclear Fusion : 2035, 500 MW
- First Fusion Operating Reactor: 2045-2050
The experimental campaign that will be carried out at ITER is crucial to advancing fusion science and preparing the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow. ITER is considered the most complex scientific project in history. The participation of our group in the ITER project reaffirms the internationalisation of our services and gives us the opportunity to actively participate in the construction of the most exciting research project in the energy sector today. www.iter.org
