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4 Nov 2019
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Testing a neutral beam for diagnostics

Every 23 seconds during fusion operation, a probe beam will penetrate deep into the core of the ITER plasma to aid in the detection of helium ash—one of fusion's products and a reliable indicator of reaction efficiency...
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28 Oct 2019
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Our neighbour the Nobel

In 2018, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Gérard Mourou for his work on ultra-short, extremely high-intensity laser pulses—the so-called "chirped pulse amplification" (CPA).
Future in-pit assembly tool
28 Oct 2019
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A colossus at the centre of the tokamak pit

An imposing tool will rise next year in the centre of the tokamak pit, formed from a trunk-like central column and nine radial beams. During in-pit assembly operations, it will support, align, and stabilize the vacuum...
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28 Oct 2019
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Some like it cold

In the ITER tokamak, several components need to be cooled to extremely low temperatures. Cold, sometimes as intense as in the most frigid places in the Universe, is essential to the superconducting magnets and the...
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28 Oct 2019
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Preparing for the assembly phase

In the spring of 2020, as the first machine components are lowered by overhead crane into the assembly pit, a new chapter will open in the history of ITER construction.
Managing risk in a first-of-a-kind project
14 Oct 2019
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Managing risk in a first-of-a-kind project

The classic approach to project management is to group risks into three separate categories. The first consists of known risks, the second of unknown risks, and the third of unknowable risks, often referred to as the...
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14 Oct 2019
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Projecting into the coming decades

Steven Cowley, who now heads the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), gave a seminar last week at CEA-Cadarache and he had some good news regarding the spherical tokamak NSTX.
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14 Oct 2019
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What vacuum does to marshmallows

Every year in France, science is "à la fête" for two consecutive weekends in October. Free events and demonstrations—tailored particularly to school-age children—offer a fun and friendly way to discover projects like...
Simulating fast ion driven instabilities
14 Oct 2019
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11th ITER International School announced

The 11th ITER International School will be held from 20 to 24 July 2020, hosted by Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France.
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14 Oct 2019
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An anniversary in blue, white and red

ITER neighbour and close partner in fusion research, the CEA-Cadarache nuclear research centre, was established in October 1959. This week, it celebrated the 60th anniversary of its creation.
China honours ITER Director-General
7 Oct 2019
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China honours ITER Director-General

Last week, ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot was one of 100 foreign experts from 31 countries to be awarded the Chinese Government Friendship Award.
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7 Oct 2019
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First tests with JET's shattered pellet injector

A shattered pellet injector—a device which pre-empts plasma disruptions by releasing a spray of frozen deuterium-neon pellets into a plasma—is now in testing on the world's largest operating tokamak, JET, at the Culham...
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7 Oct 2019
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12 pillars and counting

Two rows of pillars have now appeared at the top of the ITER Tokamak Building—12 out of 20 base pillars that will soon be topped by a second level of pillars, and finally the roof structure.
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7 Oct 2019
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Qualification program concludes in Europe

Directly facing the heat and high-energy neutrons produced during fusion is the first wall of the ITER blanket—440 beryllium-coated, detachable panels that will be installed on the inboard and outboard surfaces of the...
Software needed for fusion applications
30 Sep 2019
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ITER's healthy reliance on open source

A long-time user of open source, ITER does not stand alone—far from it. Virtually all Big Science projects in the world are big users of public domain software. Some have even decided recently to "up the ante" and move...
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30 Sep 2019
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ITER Organization awards two major contracts

Two international consortia have been selected to carry out the thousands of complex lifting, positioning, joining, and inspection activities behind the assembly, over the next five years, of the ITER core machine.
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30 Sep 2019
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As heavy as a 747 and (almost) as airworthy

In the ITER Assembly Hall, two giant sector sub-assembly tools (SSAT) provided by Korea are tasked with preassembling some of the most massive components of the tokamak. Over the past two months, functional tests under...
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30 Sep 2019
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What ITER owes President Chirac

ITER will remember former French President Jacques Chirac, who passed away on Thursday 26 September, as someone deeply involved in the ITER project—the statesman who helped finalize the negotiations in June 2005 on the...
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30 Sep 2019
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Researchers come out at midnight

Once a year, after night has fallen, 22,000 researchers from 28 European countries quit their laboratories to showcase the diversity of science and highlight the impact of research on our daily lives.
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30 Sep 2019
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Chinese staff celebrates Republic's anniversary