Paul-Henri Rebut, a fusion visionary

2023/06/27 - ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi (left) meets French President Emmanuel Macron during the president's three-day working visit to Marseille on 26, 27 and 28 June 2023. He takes the opportunity to invite the President for a visit to the ITER worksite. (Also in the photo is Romain Buchaut, right, the mayor of ITER's ''hometown'' Saint-Paul-lez-Durance.)

2026-11-03 - A D-shaped toroidal field coil (right) is added to the wing of a sector sub-assembly tool. It will be rotated toward sector #3 (left) and attached.

2026-11-02 - A 330-tonne toroidal field coil travels across the Assembly Hall under a pair of strong hands—ITER's overhead bridge cranes.

2026-10-30 - Toroidal field coil #17 has been removed from ITER’s magnet cold test facility after being successfully energized to 34 kA. The path is now clear for testing the next magnet at the nominal operating current of 68 kA.

2026-10-28 - With the sector loads being transferred one after the other to the underlying gravity supports and concrete support crown, support from above—in the form a a radial beam—can be retired.

2026-10-22 - SIMIC S.p.A., supplier to the European Domestic Agency, has shipped the first four completed divertor cassette bodies. After handover in Port-Saint-Louis, France, they will continue on to the ITER divertor integration facility in China.

2026-10-19 - Looking up from the level of the supports under the machine. A new sector module is schedule for installation at the end of November.

2026-10-19 - We used to be able to know the number of vacuum vessel modules in the tokamak pit by counting the beams from above. No more. Two radial beams have been removed (on the right) because their support is no longer required. We confirm, the number of modules in the pit is still six.

2026-10-19 - This remarkable photo of the tokamak pit seems ... almost unreal. In fact, it's taken from the perspective of a port cell that is half-blocked by a vacuum vessel sector module. On the left, you see the outer edge of the module, with part of the toroidal field coil case structure (three round holes) and the sector thermal shield (thin pipes). On the right, you can see into the tokamak pit, where space still remains for future sector modules.

2026-10-18 - Vacuum vessel sector #2, which arrived on 2 October, undergoes visual inspection.

2026-10-16 - The ITER tokamak pit as seen by photographer Jan Hosan on 16 October 2026.

2026-10-14 - QST Japan, which already supplied 8 gyrotron units to the project on behalf of the Japanese Domestic Agency, has been commissioned by the ITER Organization to supply an additional 20 gyrotron systems for electron cyclotron heating. The first production unit of the additional order has been delivered for testing to the Naka Fusion Institute and is expected at ITER later this year.

2026-10-13 - High-voltage commissioning is underway for the poloidal field coil power conversion system.

2026-10-12 - The magnet cold test facility lid is lifted on Monday 12 October after the successful energization tests of toroidal field coil #17.