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22 Jun 2023
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32nd ITER Council: A focus on updating the baseline

Last week, delegations from the seven ITER Members convened in person in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France, for the 32nd Meeting of the ITER Council. An important focus of discussion was the performance of the ITER Project...
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19 Jun 2023
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A mission to Korea

Ensuring that the ITER Organization, its partners and contractors implement the highest standards of safety and quality is central to ITER. It is a matter of regulation, but it is also a matter of culture. As nuclear...
Nao The Robot can talk about  fusion!
19 Jun 2023
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Nao, the robot who speaks fusion

Standing against the backdrop of the SPIDER vacuum vessel at Consorzio RFX, in Padua, Italy, is Nao The Robot. He was brought there by students from the local secondary school Liceo Scientifico Fermi who are...
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19 Jun 2023
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Diagnostic port plugs: First units near completion

The first two diagnostic port plug structures will be sent to ITER Domestic Agencies to be equipped with diagnostics and other hardware.
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12 Jun 2023
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Taking stock, midway through plant procurement

Fuelling the fusion reactions in ITER is not a "once-through" process; instead, fuel that is not consumed gets pumped out as part of torus plasma exhaust, together with helium ash and impurity gases, and recycled through...
Optimizing divertor lifespan at WEST
12 Jun 2023
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Data from WEST to optimize ITER's divertor

In 2013, a quarter-century-old tokamak decided to reinvent itself and, under a new name, head for new horizons and objectives. Tore Supra—a CEA/Euratom device located one kilometre from ITER in the CEA-Cadarache research...
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12 Jun 2023
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A long-awaited shot

What makes a great photograph? Sometimes it's just seizing the moment—what Magnum photo agency founder Henri Cartier-Bresson called the "decisive instant" when people, shapes, light or movement can be frozen into a...
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12 Jun 2023
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Fusion on the agenda in Berlin

A day devoted to fusion is organized in Germany, with the presence of government officials, fusion researchers, and business leaders.
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5 Jun 2023
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Spreading the word

As part of a continuing commitment to improve quality culture both at the ITER Organization and at the Domestic Agencies, the Vacuum Delivery & Installation Section delivered a training session on vacuum standards and...
Propping elements
5 Jun 2023
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Extra support from below

Underneath the concrete slab that supports the Tokamak Complex is a vast, dimly lit space whose only features are squat, pillar-like structures called "plinths." Sandwiched between the top of the pillars and the slab...
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30 May 2023
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How do electronics react to magnetic fields?

A tokamak is basically a magnetic cage designed to confine, shape and control the super-hot plasmas that make fusion reactions possible. Inside the ITER tokamak, different types of coils will generate different magnetic...
12th ITER Robots competition
30 May 2023
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No two alike

More than 500 students took part in the latest ITER Robots challenge. Working from the same instructions and technical specifications, they had worked in teams over the school year to create and program Lego-based robots...
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15 May 2023
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Operating in quasi real time

To accommodate the first real-time system integrated with the ITER control system, new components of the data archiving system have been deployed.
Sectors poised for next assembly steps
15 May 2023
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Setting the stage for a critical task

Like in a game of musical chairs—albeit in slow motion and at a massive scale—components in the Assembly Hall are being transferred from one location to another, briefly stored in one tool before being moved again, all...
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15 May 2023
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There is life on Planet ITER

Dated April 2023, this new image of the ITER "planet" places the construction site squarely in the middle.
Luo Delong named Deputy Director-General
9 May 2023
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Luo Delong, Corporate

Many years later, when the Ministry of Science and Technology assigned him to the ITER project, Luo Delong was to remember the day when, as a young boy, he read about a "man-made Sun" in a Chinese newspaper. The small...
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9 May 2023
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Japanese MEXT Minister tours the installation

In Japan, a MEXT Minister has a lot on his or her plate: the extensive Ministry is a huge administrative machine whose purview includes education, culture, sport, and science and technology with, as part of the latter...
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9 May 2023
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Eisuke Tada's ITER odyssey

The picture is part of ITER history: taken in February 2006 in front of the ITER Joint Work Site office building in Cadarache, France, it features the "Original Six,"—the small team that was to grow over the years to...
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9 May 2023
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Re-centralization has started

A network of temporary control rooms was set up to support commissioning and operation of systems before the main control room became available. Teams are now working to re-centralize some of the distributed functions.
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24 Apr 2023
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DigITER: a program for the past, present and future

ITER is all about building a large tokamak that will demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy. The project's true "end product," however, is not the machine. It is knowledge. Over the past 35 years, beginning with...