Getting ready to flex

2026-04-03 - The next convoys along the ITER route mark a double milestone, carrying the final set of ITER correction coils from China while also representing the 199th and 200th exceptional-load convoys to travel along the ITER itinerary since 2015.

2026-04-02 - At the SITL logistics exhibition in Paris in April, the European Domestic Agency for ITER, the logistics group Daher, and the industrial river transport company CFT receive the “Green Shipper” award, recognizing the low-emission transport of ITER’s largest components across southern France’s inland sea Étang de Berre. The prize highlights the use of inland waterways as a cleaner alternative to road haulage for some of Europe’s most demanding cargo operations.

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2026-04-01 - When they enter the tokamak pit, the individual sector modules are braced from above by the radial beams that divide their weight between the central column and the wall, and also propped from below. The radial beams will be removed as machine assembly advances.

2026-04-01 - Photogrammetry is underway on a D-shaped toroidal field coil that has been mounted into tooling. Two toroidal field coils are associated with one vacuum vessel sector and its thermal shield to form one of the buildings blocks of the ITER plasma chamber, called a "sector module."

2026-04-01 - Four vacuum vessel sectors have been installed in the pit and a fifth is expected next month. The torus-shaped ITER plasma chamber is taking shape ...

2026-04-01 - This team is welding "bosses" in the lower region of the vacuum vessel. Bosses are small anchoring devices for diagnostic sensors and cables ... and each sector requires thousands of them.