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After nearly five years of fabrication and testing, one of the first pieces of an incredibly powerful magnet built by General Atomics has been completed and will be shipped to Europe in the coming months, to be inserted into the heart of an ambitious international nuclear fusion project.
Standing 7 feet high, 14 feet in diameter and weighing 250,000 pounds, the module is one of six virtually identical pieces that will be stacked atop each other to make up what is called the Central Solenoid that will drive 15 million amperes of current within the ITER project, which is under construction in southern France.