Plasma edge modellers convene at ITER for Code Camp

2025-10-13 - The World Expo in Osaka, Japan, has closed its gates after six months and more than 28 million total visitors. The ITER stand—present for the full duration of the event—registered more than 2 million visitors (an average of nearly 11,000/day).

2025-10-11 - Over two weekends in October, ITER volunteers take part in national "celebration of science" (Fête de la science) events in three cities—Villeneuve-Loubet, Manosque and Marseille. They interact with hundreds of families, using simple demonstrations to illustrate important scientific concepts. Always a crowd pleaser: the plasma ball!

2025-10-07 - On Tuesday 7 October, Indian dignitaries, members of industry and staff celebrate the many vital contributions India is making to the project during India Fusion Day—both in-kind component and system contributions and the work done over the past years to participate in the repair campaign for the ITER thermal shields.

2025-10-07 - A delegation to ITER for Indian Fusion Day on 7 October is led by Vijay Kumar Saraswat, a member of the top public policy think tank NITI Aayog (left). He tells assembled guests that "the perceived potential of fusion is recognized in long-term energy security policy in India” and that ITER remains a key element in India’s fusion research plans.

2025-10-06 - Their Imperial Majesties Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan visit the ITER exhibition at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka on 6 October. This marks Their Majesties’ second appearance at the Expo, following their distinguished presence at the opening ceremony held in April. Photo credit: Expo 2025

2025-10-06 - The 330-tonne customized cryostat manufactured in China for the ITER magnet cold test facility is brought inside after delivery. Soon, it will rejoin the other components of the test bench for facility commissioning.

2025-10-04 - This giant component—a cold chamber (cryostat) for testing some of ITER's superconducting magnets—took a full five nights to travel from the port of Berre to the ITER site given its exceptional size. It passed the gates of the worksite on Saturday 4 October in the early hours of the morning.

2025-10-01 - Looking into the 30-metre-deep, 30-metre-wide "assembly pit" where the ITER machine is coming together one unique component at a time.

2025-10-01 - Principal pit construction manager Mathieu Demeyere lifts the plastic cover that protects the interface between the thermal shield panels of the two sector modules in the pit. The splice plates connecting them will fit onto the protruding bolts visible at the centre of the image.

2025-10-01 - The “in-vessel staging” is clearly visible in this image. The four platforms, including one at the lower, divertor level, will provide a safe working space from which all areas of the vacuum vessel inner wall are accessible.

2025-10-01 - Diagnostics systems will be connected to the plasma chamber by way of small “bosses” welded to the interior surface of the sector module. The large recesses protected by yellow plastic caps are for attaching the blanket modules.

2025-09-30 - At a five-day workshop at ITER, researchers exchange best practices in simulating the plasma periphery—the critical buffer region between the hot core and the solid wall elements of a tokamak. Their most powerful tool? The SOLPS-ITER code, updated recently to include “wide grids,” meaning with a computational domain extending all the way to the plasma-facing surface contour.

2025-09-30 - The flags of the ITER Members stand out against the concrete backdrop of the Tokamak Complex, in the waning light of a late September day...

2025-09-29 - A large component is making its way along the ITER itinerary this week, every night for five nights. It's a very large cryostat chamber destined for ITER's magnet cold test facility—the longest and widest load that has been transported yet from the port of Berre to ITER.