Facility status and results on ITER full-size conductor tests in SULTAN

SULTAN, the world wide unique, high field, large bore test facility. has be en built as European contribution to the development program for ITER, The facility has primarily been devoted to the qualification of full-size cable -in-conduit-conductors (CICC) foreseen as potential candidates for use in t he Central-Solenoid (CS) and the Toroidal-Field (TF) coils of ITER, Fields up to 11 T can be imposed to the vertically inserted CICC-Samples. Horizont al insertion of coiled long conductor samples is possible as demonstrated f or the QUELL and SeCRETS experiments. The facility has been upgraded to ITE R full-size conductor and joint testing program requirements. A new, superc onducting 100 kA DC-transformer has been constructed in collaboration with industry. New current sources have been installed for the pulsed field coil s used for AC loss measurements. A new remote control system has been insta lled and the control system fur cryogenics has been replaced. Within the fr ame of the ITER full size conductor test programme, three Japanese, three E uropean, one American and two CRPP-FT home made (conductor and joint) sampl es have successfully been tested in SULTAN, The present performance of the facility, experimental results and a comparison of the joint samples measur ed up to now are discussed.