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Building ITER in Lego
6 Mar 2017
Actualité

2 Japanese students, 4 days and 40,000 Lego bricks

For almost a week, the lobby of the ITER Headquarters building was occupied by two special guests. Surrounded by mountains of boxes and thousands of brightly coloured bricks, Taishi Sugiyama and Kaishi Sakane from Kyoto...
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6 Mar 2017
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Correction coils: from qualification to production

A group of 18 superconducting correction coils will be distributed around the ITER tokamak at three levels. Much thinner and lighter than ITER's massive toroidal field and poloidal field magnets, their role is to reduce...
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6 Mar 2017
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Testing the European gyrotron prototype

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6 Mar 2017
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One by one, the segments arrive

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6 Mar 2017
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China delivers electrical network components

The Chinese Domestic Agency reports the successful arrival in France of two batches of components for the pulsed power electrical network (PPEN).
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27 Feb 2017
Actualité

Last stages of assembly for behemoth tool

Among the dozens of specially designed tools that will have a role to play in positioning and assembling ITER's giant machine components, two stand—literally—a head and shoulders above the others. As tall as a seven...
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27 Feb 2017
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Let there be light!

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27 Feb 2017
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Safety control electronics remain fit after furious shaking

ITER's nuclear safety control electronics have undergone a series of tests in order to demonstrate that they can continue to perform their functions flawlessly even in the case of a seismic event.
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27 Feb 2017
Actualité

Japan completes first 110-tonne winding pack

Japan has the procurement responsibility for 9 of ITER's 19 superconducting toroidal field winding packs and all 19 of the toroidal field coil cases. In a major production milestone the first winding pack has been...
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27 Feb 2017
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Converter alley

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27 Feb 2017
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Four days to build a tokamak!

Kazakhstan-ITER cooperation?
27 Feb 2017
Actualité

Kazakhstan expresses interest in collaboration

The representatives of the nuclear institutions of Kazakhstan who visited ITER last Tuesday stated it simply and clearly: they are very interested in collaborating with ITER.
A visit to CEA
20 Feb 2017
Actualité

The magnet lab next door

Two and a half years ago ITER and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) entered a collaboration to prepare for the challenging task of commissioning and assembling the ITER magnets. A...
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20 Feb 2017
Actualité

Activity on every floor

At every floor of the Tokamak Complex—from the lowest underground level (B2) all the way to the second regular level of the bioshield (L2)—there is intense activity.
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20 Feb 2017
Actualité

Bringing the Research Plan up to date

The ITER Research Plan is an ITER baseline document which outlines the main lines of science and technology research derived from the project's mission goals.
PF6 coil: to be manufactured in China
20 Feb 2017
Actualité

Further validation for ring magnet fabrication

Once a component mockup has been produced—and before fabrication can begin on the actual component or system—a manufacturing readiness review is required to ensure that materials, tools and procedures meet the...
First central solenoid module
20 Feb 2017
Actualité

First central solenoid module ready for heat treatment

In a major milestone, the US contractor responsible for the fabrication of the ITER central solenoid has successfully joined seven individual coil sections, or more than 6 kilometres of niobium-tin superconductor. Now...
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13 Feb 2017
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ITER-like WEST ready to go

Imagine a space shuttle "landing" on—or rather flying very close to—the surface of the Sun. The heat load it would be exposed to would be in the range of 10 to 20 MW per square metre. Speaking to media representatives...
E-house delivered
13 Feb 2017
Actualité

Many will be heavier, none will be wider

Of all the components that will be delivered to ITER in the years to come, many will be heavier, taller and more spectacular than the two "E-Houses" that reached the worksite shortly after 1:00 a.m. on Thursday 9...
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13 Feb 2017
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Signatures complete transfer of ion source power supply

Occupying a full room at the PRIMA neutral beam test facility in Italy, the ion source extraction grid power supply is an important power supply component for the ion source test bed SPIDER. Following successful site...