Manufacture and assembly of the ITER Toroidal Field Model Coil

A toroidal field model coil (TFMC) was built within the ITER EDA phase (Eng ineering Design Activities) to acquire experience for all manufacturing ste ps to be applied in building the ITER TF coil. The design and the test stru cture are representative of the future ITER TF coils and are to demonstrate industrial feasibility, The TFMC was designed by the European ITER Home Team and manufactured by th e AGAN consortium (Accel; GEC Alsthom, now Alstom; Ansaldo; Noell, now Babc ock Noell Nuclear). The coil has been tested successfully at the Karlsruhe Research Center (FKZ ) in Germany since the summer of 2001, After installation into the TOSKA ve ssel the 60 t superconducting model coil for the future ITER fusion test re actor established a world record for the current flow in superconducting ma gnets, operating at a temperature of -269 degreesC and reaching electric cu rrents of up to 80,000 amps. This marks an important milestone in demonstra ting the availability of magnet technology, The contribution describes the main steps in manufacturing the conductors, pancakes, and the winding stack, installation into the housing, and assembl y at FZK.