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Study on the Flexible Support Legs for ITER Transfer Cask System

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In fields of remote handing i.e. robot technology for fusion engineering reactor, such as ITER or the China fusion engineering test reactor, the flexible support legs are key components for their transfer cask system to adjust its position, joining to hot cell or tokamak ports for maintaining the fusion device. For ITER machine, each support leg should withstand maximum 50 tons load and adjust its height in 150 mm. Defect in original ITER design was presented. A new concept for the support legs was configured and its feasibility was proven. Detailed design and simulation was done for the new support leg with virtual prototype technology. Simulation results show that new support leg could not only meet all required function but also has merits of constant load during the tuning process with linear relation of control variable parameters, which is intended to be used for Tokamak reactors.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, China

    Shaoqing Li

  2. Institute of Plasma Physics CAS, Hefei, China

    Lei Cao & Ge Li

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This work was performed under the auspices of National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China No. 2011GB114003, together with the State Basic Research Development Program of China (973 Program 2011GB113005-1).

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Li, S., Cao, L. & Li, G. Study on the Flexible Support Legs for ITER Transfer Cask System. J Fusion Energ 33, 794–799 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10894-014-9739-9

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