Project performing to schedule and cost

2025-11-20 - ITER Council Chair Massimo Garribba (Europe) addresses Member delegations during the Thirty-Seventh Meeting of the ITER Council. Near him (left to right) are ITER Council Secretary Katja Rauhansalo, ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi, Deputy Director-General for Science & Technololgy Yutaka Kamada, and Deputy Director-General for Corporate Delong Luo.

2025-11-20 - ITER is performing somewhat ahead of schedule while spending less than anticipated in Baseline 2024. The ITER Council urges the ITER Organization and all Domestic Agencies to continue to drive this pace and performance during its 37th meeting on 19-20 November.

2025-11-17 - ITER’s port plug test facility will begin operating with one test bench, before expanding in the coming years to three to be able to handle the volume of ITER port plugs to be tested before installation on the machine. The Russian Domestic Agency delivers the first vacuum test chamber (photo) in November, in conjunction with manufacturer GKMP.

2025-11-17 - Team members working on the port plug test facility gather at a ceremony on 13 November to mark the arrival of the first vacuum test tank from Russia. Once port plugs have been fitted with their tenant systems, they will undergo a series of performance tests at the facility that this team is building.

2025-11-14 - All smiles: the SIMANN team (SIMIC + Ansaldo Nucleare) has completed all preparatory work on vacuum vessel sector #4, which was delivered by Europe last May. The sector is ready to be integrated into the sector module assembly line in the Assembly Hall.

2025-11-13 - Staff gather in the amphitheatre and online for a special lecture by Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The talk explores ITER’s journey—from its roots in post-war scientific diplomacy to its evolution as a symbol of international collaboration and technological ambition.

2025-11-13 - French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Chairman Anne-Isabelle Etienvre and International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi tour the ITER installation with ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi during a visit on 13 November. They are shown here inside the ITER vacuum vessel.

2025-11-13 - Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), visits ITER on 13 November, where he tours the major facilities in the company of the ITER Director-General (right) and a large delegation. Referring to the long-standing support of his agency for the development of fusion energy and the ITER project, he stresses that close collaboration between the IAEA and ITER remains essential as the effort to achieve fusion electricity accelerates worldwide.

2025-11-13 - On 13 November, the heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), and the ITER Organization announce that CEA and ITER will host a session of the IAEA’s Lise Meitner professional training program for women in nuclear in 2026.

2025-11-11 - Approximately 400 engineers, scientists, and others gather from around the world for the sixteenth International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT-16) from 11 to 15 November—one of the premier venues for the dissemination of the latest fusion nuclear technology developments. The week-long event includes a plenary talk by Kathy McCarthy, project director of US ITER (photo), plus presentations by staff from ITER and from the European, Korean, Japanese, and US Domestic Agencies.

2025-11-05 - From 4 to 6 November in Paris, more than 25,000 participants—including exhibitors from 88 countries—gather for the world’s leading civil nuclear industry event: the World Nuclear Exhibition. At the ITER booth, during a procurement event on ITER business opportunities, and in a high-level panel discussion, the fusion community proudly showcased its progress and potential.

2025-11-05 - The 2025 PhD event of the European Fusion Education Network FuseNet takes place at ITER in November. Approximately 150 fusion students and researchers take part in the three-day program, with lectures, roundtables, site vists, networking, Pecha-Kucha-style presentations, and poster sessions.

2025-11-04 - The fifth independent central solenoid is about to be installed at the top of the tower stack.

2025-11-04 - Within the grasp of a bespoke lifting tool, a 110-tonne superconducting magnet for the central solenoid begins its ascent to the top of the stack where it will join four others.