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16 Sep 2024
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Scientific outreach on two wheels

A group of fusion researchers has left Padua, Italy, for an 800-kilometre bike trip to the ITER site. Their goal? To share information about fusion energy research and career opportunities in the field with the public...
9 Sep 2024
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Strengthening cooperation with China

ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi made a diplomatic trip to China last week to represent the ITER project at multiple high-level meetings.
9 Sep 2024
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IAEA Technical Meeting held to tackle tokamak disruptions

The detrimental effects of plasma disruptions are a major concern for ITER and all next-generation fusion devices. Experts from all over the world met early this month at ITER headquarters to exchange the latest, state...
9 Sep 2024
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Recent milestones in Russia

Russia continues to deliver in-kind components to the ITER project according to procurement arrangements signed with the ITER Organization. Some recent manufacturing news is highlighted below.
9 Sep 2024
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Space solutions for terrestrial dust

Satellite cleanliness engineering will help protect the ITER tokamak from construction contamination.
22 Jul 2024
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A guide to work underway

Just like the ITER worksite, drone photography is also making progress. This view of the ITER platform is the sharpest and most detailed of all those we have published over the past decade. We have added labels and...
22 Jul 2024
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Different approaches around the world

Look east, look west ... tokamak projects are underway in different parts of the world. All of them are benefiting from and complementing the pioneering work already done—and ongoing—at ITER.
15 Jul 2024
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A portfolio

Whether standing vertically in the Assembly Hall or lying horizontally in the former Cryostat Workshop now assigned to component repair operations, the non-conformities on three vacuum vessel sectors are undergoing...
15 Jul 2024
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ITER presents its new plans

The new ITER baseline and its associated research plan were presented last week at the 50th annual conference of the European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division.
8 Jul 2024
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Closing a fusion schism

Historically, inertial confinement and magnetic confinement approaches to fusion have been parallel, separate processes. The ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop in May showed why that no longer necessarily has to be the...
8 Jul 2024
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The platform's quasi-final appearance

Since preparation work began in 2007 on the stretch of land that was to host the 42-hectare ITER platform, regular photographic surveys have been organized to document the progress of the installation's construction...
8 Jul 2024
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Preparing for the cold tests

Before being delivered to ITER , the torus and cryostat cryopumps are submitted to a comprehensive series of factory acceptance tests . This is not sufficient, however, to guarantee that these most complex of components...
3 Jul 2024
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Family day at ITER

Whether partners, children, parents or close relatives, they probably hear about ITER every day. But few of them, until last Sunday, ever had the opportunity to see ITER with their own eyes, experience the expanse of the...
3 Jul 2024
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"A good day for the world"

A little before 2:00 a.m. on 17 April 2020 a powerful transport trailer, accompanied by dozens of technical and security vehicles, passed the gates of the ITER site. On the trailer's flatbed, tightly wrapped in...
3 Jul 2024
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New baseline to prioritize robust start to exploitation

At a press conference on 3 July attended by approximately 200 journalists and key ITER stakeholders, ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi answered questions about the new project plan—the "baseline"—that is under...
24 Jun 2024
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Reflecting on a unique industrial achievement

They had worked together for 10 years. And on Thursday 20 June, they gathered one last time to reflect on what they had accomplished.
24 Jun 2024
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Hard work deserves an outdoor buffet

A start-of-summer event was held on Friday 21 June for the ITER community—an occasion to celebrate the everyday commitment of staff and contractors alike, across the international project, whose collaboration is bringing...
20 Jun 2024
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Updated baseline presented

Nearly 100 people met for two days last week for the 34th Meeting of the ITER Council. The meeting was an important one, as the ITER Organization and the Domestic Agencies presented a proposed update of the project...
17 Jun 2024
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First unit reaches ITER

The ITER vacuum team, the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy, Research Instruments (RI), and the ITER Director-General were all excited to welcome the delivery of the ITER first production cryopump on 30 May.
17 Jun 2024
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ITER Robots goes international

Thinking outside the box, teamwork and ingenuity are the ingredients that make for a successful robotics engineer—all qualities that are cultivated by participating in the annual ITER Robots competition.