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Testing optical fibres for neutron resistance
2 Jul 2018
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Testing the resistance to radiation

Inside the ITER machine, the divertor and the blanket will be equipped with more than 1,000 fibre optic sensors for recording temperature, strain, displacement and acceleration—important feedback to estimating the health...
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25 Jun 2018
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Russia completes its share of poloidal field conductor

Russia has officially completed its second in-kind Procurement Arrangement for ITER—producing 20 percent of the superconductors required for the poloidal field magnet system.
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25 Jun 2018
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Project on track for First Plasma in 2025

The ITER Council, ITER's governing body, met for the twenty-second time on 20 and 21 June 2018 at the ITER Organization in Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France. Council Members approved refinements to the construction strategy...
Borated concrete selected for this area
25 Jun 2018
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An insatiable appetite for neutrons

Of all the different concrete formulations that are implemented in ITER construction—and there are more than a dozen—one has a unique attribute: an insatiable appetite for neutrons.
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25 Jun 2018
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A cabin on the roof?

New graphite tiles on Wendelstein 7-X
25 Jun 2018
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A stellarator record for "triple product"

There is news of success from Wendelstein 7-X, where a record "triple product" value for stellarators was obtained during the most recent experimental campaign.
GOLEM: A legacy tokamak in Prague
18 Jun 2018
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The second-hand market

Whatever their size, fusion devices are fine pieces of technology that are complex to design and expensive to build. As research progresses and experimental programs unfold, however, scientific institutions routinely...
U-shaped clamps for PF5 assembly
18 Jun 2018
Actualité

A set of clamps to resist all loads

China is providing an extensive array of supports and clamps for ITER's superconducting magnet systems—in all, more than 1,600 tonnes of equipment. On 9 June, the first batch of U-shaped poloidal field clamps was on...
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18 Jun 2018
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Coaxial cables arrive from Russia

Thirty-eight reels of cable on 13 specially equipped trailers ... the recent convoy of electrotechnical equipment shipped by the Russian Domestic Agency was the largest yet to travel between Saint Petersburg and...
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18 Jun 2018
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Lions and mammoths and cave bears—oh my!

Separated by less than 200 kilometres in space—but by 36,000 years in time—the ITER Tokamak and the Chauvet Cave may seem to have little in common. But to science journalist Pedro Lima, there is a close similarity: each...
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11 Jun 2018
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First ITER test bed enters operation

For all those who had contributed to designing and building the world's largest negative ion source, it was a deeply symbolic moment. ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot pressed down, and sent into motion a chain of...
Tokamak: the leading fusion device
11 Jun 2018
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Searching for the perfect shape

The perfect magnetic trap doesn't exist. Over time plasma physicists have experimented with different types of cylinders, magnetic mirrors and circular or helical shapes to optimize control of the plasma. While R&D...
ITER Robots: juniors in action
11 Jun 2018
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Pre-teens can too!

Made-from-scratch movers and carriers were again on display near ITER, as the younger set took up the ITER Robots challenge.
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4 Jun 2018
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A midnight pour

It is close to midnight in the brightly lit basement of the ITER bioshield and, tonight, the first plot of the Tokamak "crown" is to be poured. The operation is of strategic importance: the crown will support the...
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4 Jun 2018
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The hottest stuff in ITER

The heat flux sustained by the targets of the ITER divertor will be higher still—by ten times—than that of a space vessel re-entering Earth's atmosphere. Meticulous prototyping and test campaigns are underway to prepare...
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4 Jun 2018
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In Russia, that makes two

In mid-May, factory acceptance tests were successfully carried out on the second gyrotron of the Russian procurement program by specialists at the Institute of Applied Physics and GYCOM Ltd.
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4 Jun 2018
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Holding the (precious) water

A second batch of tanks for ITER's water detritiation system has been delivered by Europe for installation in the Tritium Building.
Cryopump testing at CEA-Cadarache
4 Jun 2018
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Big cold trap under test

Creating an ultra-high vacuum inside the vast toroidal chamber of the ITER tokamak—the aptly named "vacuum vessel"—is imperative to initiating plasma operations.
Fusion principles, hands-on
28 May 2018
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Let's play with plasma

Humans are visual creatures. By offering a number of highly visual table top experiments, the Fusion Road Show illustrated that "seeing is believing" when it had its debut at ITER's Open Doors Day, explaining the...
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28 May 2018
Actualité

An awe-inspiring experience

In one of the videos on a continuous loop in the ITER Visitors Centre, Director-General Bernard Bigot introduces the fundamentals of fusion energy by saying: "The principle is simple..."