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Bernard Bigot visits Heliotron J in Japan
16 Oct 2017
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A visit to Kyoto's heliotron

At the Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University, researchers have been exploring the heliotron concept of magnetic fusion device for more than half a century. Closer to the stellarator than the tokamak, the...
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16 Oct 2017
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The lights of autumn

Summer is over in Provence and the beautiful autumn light is back, revealing every detail of the landscape ... and of the ongoing works on the ITER construction site.
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16 Oct 2017
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A true sense of size

Just like a thermos provides the insulation to keep your coffee warm—or your water cold—the ITER cryostat raises a barrier around the superconducting magnets that limits the possibility of heat exchange with the outside...
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16 Oct 2017
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ITER at 10

Travelling to the next station
16 Oct 2017
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Heaviest and first to go

The heaviest of ITER's ring magnets, poloidal field coil #6 (PF6), is taking shape at the Chinese Institute of Plasma Physics ASIPP under the terms of an agreement signed with the procuring party, Europe. Three of the...
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9 Oct 2017
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Au revoir, Astana

Astana, Kazakhstan. Whenever you mentioned the place during dinner with friends, questioning eyes were guaranteed. That was before Expo 2017.
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9 Oct 2017
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Answering questions 3D models can't

In some areas of the Tokamak Building the steel reinforcement is so dense and the arrangement of the bars so complex, that even the most detailed 3D models are not sufficient to demonstrate full constructability.
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9 Oct 2017
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A symbolic first

It was just a heavy oversized crate. But its contents had an important symbolic value for the ITER Project. The load that was delivered on Thursday 5 October contained the first shipment directly connected to one of the...
Factory acceptance testing for SSEN components
9 Oct 2017
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US ITER completes deliveries

The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), with assistance from the Department of Energy's Princeton Site Office and the US ITER Project Office at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed a $34 million, five-year...
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9 Oct 2017
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Experts of the world, unite!

Late September, the ITER Project called together experts from operating tokamaks and other scientific facilities around the world in order to consider the future commissioning and operations of the ITER Tokamak and plant...
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9 Oct 2017
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Review of maintenance processes

Earlier this year, with the hot summer months fast approaching, the ITER Remote Handling & Radwaste Management Division accomplished a major milestone with the successful completion of the Conceptual Design Review for...
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2 Oct 2017
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Heat flux in line with design basis

New research from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) predicts that the maximum high heat flux from the ITER Tokamak can be handled by the ITER divertor—the component at the bottom of the machine that, in...
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2 Oct 2017
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China delivers four high-tech transformers

The four converter-transformers that passed the ITER gate at 3:00 a.m. last Wednesday are part of a set of 16 to be installed outside the twin Magnet Power Converter Buildings. (Fourteen are needed for First Plasma, an...
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2 Oct 2017
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ITER Members share inventions and solutions

Whether working to design and test prototypes, develop advanced control systems, resolve open physics questions, or manufacture technically challenging components and systems, individuals and teams working within the...
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2 Oct 2017
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EPICS software developers meet at ITER

This week, three diverse groups of people—core developers of the EPICS toolkit, of the Control System Studio visualization software, and of the areaDetector 2D image processing framework—are meeting at ITER Headquarters...
Testing vacuum sealing
2 Oct 2017
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Leaving nothing to chance

With its 54 large openings (or ports) the ITER vacuum vessel is a challenge to seal completely, and yet ultra-high vacuum is needed for the success of the plasma pulses.
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2 Oct 2017
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Roll on to the new ramp!

A new roll-on/roll-off ramp will facilitate the transhipment of components in Fos harbour.
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18 Sep 2017
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In goes the antenna

Just a short distance from the ITER site, the Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research (IRFM) is modifying the Tore Supra plasma facility which, once transformed, will become a test platform open to all ITER partners—the...
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18 Sep 2017
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Off-site test facility for design evaluation

Through a technical collaboration established between the ITER Organization and the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) in 2017, the UKAEA's centre for Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE) is designing...
A tailor's workshop?
18 Sep 2017
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A tailor-made ring

They work like tailors, carefully taking measurements and cutting immaculate fabric with large pairs of scissors. But they're not making a white three-piece suit. The workers are busy insulating turns of conductors for...