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088<br />

progress report<br />

2010<br />

chapter 4<br />

superconductivity<br />

During 2010 the Superconductivity laboratory activities regarded manufacturing and testing of conductor<br />

samples for ITER (the way in latin) and its satellite facilities, in ad<strong>di</strong>tion to characterization and research on<br />

conventional low–temperature superconducting (LTS) materials and high temperature superconductor (HTS)<br />

coated conductors.<br />

Concerning the cable–in–conduit conductor (CICC) production, <strong>ENEA</strong> was involved in manufacturing the<br />

two poloidal field (PF) conductor samples PF1 and PF2 for ITER, and in the compaction of ITER centrals<br />

solenoid (CS) empty tubes. Activities were also carried out for the feasibility verification of the superconducting<br />

toroidal field (TF) magnet system of the Fusion Advanced Stu<strong>di</strong>es Torus (FAST). Besides these activities,<br />

<strong>ENEA</strong> was involved in the heat exchanger design for the 30 kA current leads of <strong>ENEA</strong> CICC upgrade facility<br />

and in the study on the effect of strand ben<strong>di</strong>ng on the voltage-current characteristic of Nb 3<br />

Sn CICCs.<br />

R&D on LTS was devoted to transport and structural stu<strong>di</strong>es on NbTi and Nb 3<br />

Sn strands. Direct inter–<br />

filament resistivity measurements were extended from Nb 3<br />

Sn to NbTi samples; with the aim to clarify how<br />

the jacket affects the strain configuration in the complex system of multi–filamentary strands, <strong>ENEA</strong> carried<br />

out high–resolution x–ray <strong>di</strong>ffraction measurements at the high–energy scattering beam–line ID15B of the<br />

European Synchrotron Ra<strong>di</strong>ation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble. The <strong>ENEA</strong> 2–components pinning model for<br />

NbTi has been updated in order to take into account the temperature non–scaling. Several commercial Nb 3<br />

Sn<br />

and NbTi samples have been characterized by means of inductive and transport measurements in the <strong>ENEA</strong><br />

superconductivity facilities.

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