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The ITER Council convenes for its sixth meeting in Suzhou, China, 16-17 June. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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A cutaway view of the future ITER Tokamak. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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An aerial view of the ITER construction site in Cadarache, France, June 2010. In the foreground we see the (still empty) storm water basin and the four water control basins. © Agence ITER France Download image... |
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An aerial view of the ITER construction site in Cadarache, France, looking West. The position of the future tokamak is marked out on the platform. © Agence ITER France Download image... |
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One of the 54 cassettes that will form the ITER Divertor. Acting like a "giant hoover," the Divertor removes waste gas and impurities from the Vacuum Vessel. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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Cut-away of the ITER Vacuum Vessel showing part of the 440 Blanket modules attached to the inner wall and the Divertor cassettes at the bottom. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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The ITER Team in November 2008. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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The ITER machine is based on the "tokamak" concept of magnetic plasma confinement, in which the fusion fuel is contained in a doughnut-shaped vessel. With a height of 29 metres and a diametre of 28 metres, ITER will be the world's largest tokamak. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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The ITER Vacuum Vessel and its 44 ports. Weighing 8000 tons, it is slightly heavier than the Eiffel Tower. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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A test coil wound with a prototype superconductor for the ITER Poloidal Field (PF) coil at the Naka Fusion Institute of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), January 2008. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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ITER Headquarters is based in Cadarache, Southern France. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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ITER Director-General Kaname Ikeda signing a Partnership Agreement between the ITER Organization and the Principality of Monaco in the presence of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II, January 2008. The Agreement sets up five Postdoctoral Fellowships and establishes an annual International Conference on ITER-related research. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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ITER Principal Deputy Director-General Norbert Holtkamp (second from left), Erkki Leppavuori, Didier Gambier, and Octavio Quintana Trias (from left), pressing the button that sets the first full-size prototype for ITER Divertor Test Platform Facility in Tampere, Finland into motion, January, 2009. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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The signing of the ITER Agreement on 21 November 2006 at the Élysée Palace, in Paris. Present are French President Jacques Chirac, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso and some 400 invited guests including high-level representatives from the ITER Parties and European Member States. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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An artistic impression of what ITER will look like. The large orange building in the centre is the Tokamak hall, the long building on the right is the winding facility for the Poloidal Field Coils . © ITER Organization Download image... |
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An artistic impression of what ITER will look like. The orange building in the centre will house the ITER Tokamak. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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The ITER flag flying high on 27 May, 2009, marking the very spot on the ITER platform where work will begin this year to excavate the Tokamak pit. © Agence ITER France Download image... |
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The official ITER Organization logo. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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Staff from ITER Organization, the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy (F4E), and Agence ITER France gather on the ITER platform on 27 May, 2009 for a historic photo, marking the completion of site work and the beginning of a new chapter in ITER history: construction. © Agence ITER France Download image... |
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A detailed cutaway of the ITER Tokamak, with the hot plasma, in pink, in the centre. © ITER Organization Download image... |
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Representatives from ITER's seven Members at the fifth ITER Council meeting in Cadarache, France, 18-19 November 2009. © ITER Organization Download image... |