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28 Apr 2025
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“We can go so much faster together”

In May 2024 the ITER Organization opened its doors for the first time to private fusion companies, recognizing that the mass of experience accumulated by the ITER project over the decades could be highly valuable to...
28 Apr 2025
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ITPA and IMAS now accessible to privately funded fusion initiatives

The International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) provides a framework for internationally coordinated fusion research activities in the ITER Members. The ITER Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite (IMAS) is the...
28 Apr 2025
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Record participation in a changing landscape

The International Business Forum, which aims at connecting ITER and industry, was established in 2007 when preparation work was just beginning on the ITER platform in southern France. In the nearly two decades since, the...
28 Apr 2025
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The big stage for star chasers and star makers

It was a four-day science, art and music bonanza in La Palma, Spain at the STARMUS festival, whose overall aim is to “engage humanity in the biggest questions of our time.” ITER was represented.
28 Apr 2025
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Expected in early May

Another 440-tonne sector of the vacuum vessel is travelling to ITER. It will be the sixth (of nine) to reach the worksite.
14 Apr 2025
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They made it possible!

To achieve what Director-General Pietro Barabaschi called the “record performance” of transferring sector module #7 to the tokamak assembly pit, the “human factor” was key.
14 Apr 2025
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ITER @ the World Expo

The World EXPO opened its gates yesterday in Osaka, Japan, for the second time in its history and the ITER project was present.
14 Apr 2025
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A “record performance” brings assembly back on track

The transfer of sector module #7 to the tokamak assembly pit, on Thursday 10 April, was many things in one. Hailed as a “record performance” by ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi, considered a “top-level achievement...
7 Apr 2025
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Electrical infrastructure taking shape

On either side of the Tokamak Complex, construction is advancing on electrical buildings that will play key roles in distributing and safeguarding power to the ITER site while also establishing standards for future...
7 Apr 2025
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5th solenoid module heads to ITER

7 Apr 2025
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All 8 cryopumps received

The final cryopump for ITER has been successfully manufactured, factory acceptance tested, and delivered to the ITER site. All eight torus and cryostat cryopumps are now on site.
7 Apr 2025
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EUROfusion unites research in Europe

Fusion devices around Europe are testing new materials, perfecting plasma control, and designing resilient reactor components to contribute to ITER’s success and prepare for the next-phase reactor DEMO. The European...
31 Mar 2025
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A second upending tool to speed up the process

An upending tool is designed to handle some of the largest ITER components such as vacuum vessel sectors and toroidal field coils. As a consequence, its steel frame is quite cumbersome and can only be delivered in two...
31 Mar 2025
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One last procurement for Korea

In December 2023, ITER celebrated the completion of the main construction work on the Tritium Building—a "formidable adventure" initiated 14 years earlier under Europe's responsibility. Once fully equipped, the facility...
31 Mar 2025
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Microsoft and ITER to harness the power of AI

While ITER has been using Microsoft tools for years, the two organizations have now begun a formal collaboration that may yield benefits never thought possible.
31 Mar 2025
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Collaborative research intensifies on China's HL-3 tokamak

In the framework of a deepened collaboration between the Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP), China and the ITER Organization, the HL-3 tokamak has become a satellite device of ITER. A campaign dedicated to...
31 Mar 2025
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Today’s achievement, tomorrow’s “routine”

Six months and ten days: that’s what it took to assemble the massive elements of sector module #7, one of the nine sectors that will form the torus-shaped vacuum vessel that will house the fusion reactions. Lessons...
24 Mar 2025
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Augmented reality goes to work for nuclear fusion

The ITER Organization has begun deploying software that allows people to walk around the site and compare as-is work to as-designed 3D models on their tablets and smartphones.
24 Mar 2025
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Vacuum vessel sector #8 back in upending tool

The tokamak assembly pit, a vast cylindrical space that is 30 metres deep and 30 metres in diameter, was not meant to be used as a temporary storage facility. It came in handy, however, when the need arose to find a...
24 Mar 2025
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Control room progressively equipped

In the “ room that will be seen around the world,” as former ITER Deputy Head of the Construction Project Tim Luce put it when the ITER main control room issued its first command three months ago, 30 operator stations...