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17 Mar 2025
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AI-based chatbot helps ITER users find information

After observing success and failure in other organizations, ITER has developed and deployed a first set of AI-based tools that deliver real value to a large user base.
17 Mar 2025
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All elements of central solenoid structure now at ITER

The United States Domestic Agency, US ITER, has completed delivery of all components for the support structure of the central solenoid—the 60-foot-tall superconducting magnet that is the “heart” of the ITER machine...
17 Mar 2025
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A comprehensive review

On 30-31 January, the ITER In-Vessel Assembly Project conducted a comprehensive review of the assembly and installation processes for key in-vessel components, including the in-vessel coils and the blanket and divertor...
10 Mar 2025
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Europe completes another vacuum vessel sector

The European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy (F4E) and subcontractors Ansaldo Nucleare, Westinghouse and Walter Tosto have completed all manufacturing activities on vacuum vessel sector #4. It will depart from Italy...
Modelling plasma
10 Mar 2025
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ITER International School: scientific program announced

Sign up before 1 April 2025 for this year's ITER International School on the topic of "Integrated Modelling in Magnetic Fusion Plasmas." The school will take place in Aix-en-Provence, France, from 30 June to 4 July 2025.
10 Mar 2025
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Handling a giant component (with video)

Sector #8 has been transferred temporarily to the tokamak pit. The operation, which took place on 4 March, went smoothly.
10 Mar 2025
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Experts meet to elaborate details of new blueprint

In accordance with the overall baseline approach established by the ITER Council, the Research Plan must be refined and checked for consistency with the foreseen configuration of the tokamak and its ancillary systems. A...
24 Feb 2025
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Making a pivot look easy

The component is heavier than a fully loaded Boeing 747 airliner, but you wouldn't know it watching the pivot operation that took place last week in the ITER Assembly Hall, where the specialized tooling makes the...
24 Feb 2025
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Have you ever wondered what it’s like inside an operating tokamak?

If you know a little about tokamaks, you can probably picture their gleaming metal interiors and even imagine a cloud of spinning plasma. But what is it really like inside an operating tokamak? What might be heard, seen...
17 Feb 2025
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India’s contributions to ITER

The visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week brought attention to the vital contributions that India is making to the ITER project, both in terms of industrial expertise and skilled personnel.
12 Feb 2025
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Macron and Modi tour ITER together

History was made on 12 February 2025 at ITER, as the heads of state of France and India were welcomed on site for a joint visit celebrating scientific and technological collaboration.
10 Feb 2025
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Sector #8 to be lifted and turned

Since December 2023, this 440-tonne vacuum vessel sector had been under another roof as repairs for dimensional non-conformities were planned and then executed on one side of the component. Last week, it was moved back...
10 Feb 2025
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Registration opens for 2nd ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop

ITER has opened formal registration for the second Private Sector Fusion Workshop, to be hosted at the ITER site in Provence on 22-23 April 2025. As with the first workshop in May 2024, this forum is designed to serve...
10 Feb 2025
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Achievements at EAST and WEST

In the past weeks, two superconducting tokamaks—EAST in China and WEST in France—have announced new performance records. What relevance to ITER?
3 Feb 2025
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Upgrading JT-60SA to prepare for 2026 experiments

Since achieving first plasma in October 2023, the world’s largest operating tokamak—the joint international fusion experiment JT-60SA—has been undergoing a series of enhancements that are helping to ready the device for...
3 Feb 2025
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Scientist Beatrix Schunke

A key member of the neutral beam injection team, Beatrix Schunke had worked since 2006 at ITER.
3 Feb 2025
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ITER Scientific Data Centre comes online

After nearly six years of design and construction, the ITER Scientific Data and Computing Centre was completed in December 2024 and will become fully operational in 2025.
3 Feb 2025
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Ready for anything

Shift operation managers at ITER work around the clock to ensure that operational areas of the plant are functioning normally and to intervene in the case of off-normal events. Last year, due to an increase in plant...
3 Feb 2025
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Star awards: everyday heroes

On Thursday 23 January Director-General Barabaschi presented ITER Star Awards to 79 individuals.
20 Jan 2025
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A second, more versatile upending tool on its way

Two days ago, an extra upending tool—which ITER recently ordered from Korea to speed up operations related to vacuum vessel sector repair and sector module assembly—began its month-long journey to ITER. The more than 100...