2025-07-23 - The ITER Scientific Data and Computing Centre is a state-of-the-art facility designed for high-performance computing and data management within ITER. During peak operations, the Data Centre is expected to manage 30–50 gigabytes per second of throughput, and daily archive volumes could reach between 90 and 2,200 terabytes, depending on the stage of the project. By around 2035, the cumulative data archive is projected to exceed one exabyte—a billion gigabytes—making it one of the largest scientific data stores in the world. Read more here: https://www.iter.org/node/20687/massive-infrastructure-protect-and-preserve-iters-scientific-legacy

2025-07-14 - While in Japan for the Fusion Energy Day organized at the Osaka World Expo, Director-General Pietro Barabaschi pays a courtesy visit to Minister for Foreign Affairs Takeshi Iwaya. Minister Iwaya was at the signing of the ITER Agreement in 2006.

2025-07-13 - Personalize your phone for the summer with one of four different ITER wallpaper options. They can be downloaded from https://www.iter.org/node/20687/iter-wallpaper-mobile-phones.

2025-07-13 - ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi meets with a delegation from China at the Osaka World Expo. The Director-General of the Chinese Domestic Agency, Wang Yan, is third from right.

2025-07-08 - ITER has opened a new fitness and recreational facility, a project initiated and managed by the ITER Staff Committee in response to strong demand from staff. Top features include more than 50 exercise machines and a pilates/yoga room.

2025-07-07 - Equipment installation in the main server room of the ITER Control Building is progressing on schedule. In a few weeks, the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy (F4E)—which has been responsible for delivering the Control Building and its equipment—will hand over to the ITER Organization.

2025-07-07 - On Monday 7 July, the first of the many gyrotrons required for plasma heating by way of a technique called electron cyclotron resonance heating is unpacked and positioned on its support structure in the Radiofrequency Building. The component had been delivered by Japan in February 2022 as part of a global procurement program for gyrotrons that also involves Russia, Europe and India.

2025-06-30 - The 2025 ITER International School on integrated modelling from 30 June to 4 July attracts 232 participants from 39 countries. Hosted by Aix-Marseille University (AMU, France), the school included a visit to ITER (photo) as part of day one activities. Photo: R. Kraaijenhagen (TULP Fusion Foundation)

2025-06-23 - At SOFE 2025 in Boston, a Women in Fusion (WiF) event spotlights the urgent need to build a more intentional pipeline for future talent. In a context of intense competition for roles currently, yet a predicted strong increase in the need for well-trained professionals in the future, how do we attract the next generation to the field of fusion?

2025-06-23 - An early start to the day for dozens of participants to the International Yoga Day event on the ITER site. Hosted by the newly established Consulate of India in Marseille, in cooperation with the ITER Organization, the event was organized before the start of the workday on Monday 23 June.

2025-06-23 - The 2025 Symposium on Fusion Engineering opens in Boston (USA) on 23 June. Takeaway number one: the ecosystem around fusion is growing—a direct result of over 20 years of designing and fabricating components for the giant ITER project, and of the dynamism of the new fusion startups that are disproving the old saying "fusion is always 30 years away."

2025-06-20 - Just one day ahead of the summer solstice, ITER staff gathered for a summer luncheon party. It had been a busy week, with a meeting of the ITER Council, the lifting of a second "segment" of the vacuum vessel into the tokamak pit, and a semestrial all-staff meeting offering the opportunity to ask questions, and receive answers, about project status and plans for the future.

2025-06-19 - Representatives to the Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the ITER Council (IC-36) stand at the top of the tokamak pit, looking down on the never-before-seen sight of TWO sector modules.

2025-06-16 - The World Expo in Osaka, Japan, will run for six months, from 13 April to 13 October 2025. At the ITER stand, there are crowds every day.

2025-06-14 - For the third time, ITER was back again at Viva Technology—an annual conference in Paris that gathers startups, investors, decision-makers, executives, and media for an event focused on innovation. AI, innovation in health and medicine, the future of work, cybersecurity, quantum technologies and fusion energy were at centre stage.

2025-06-13 - French Prime Minister François Bayrou visits the ITER stand at VivaTech 2025.

2025-06-09 - ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi takes part in the Korea Fusion Energy Development Forum in Daejeon on 9 June. He hails Korea's contributions to the advancement of fusion energy through it domestic development program as well as through its contributions to ITER and other international collaborations. “We're working to accelerate commercialization by combining fusion expertise from Korea and other key nations.”

2025-06-09 - Photographs of ITER by French artist Camille Moirenc are now displayed at the Gare de Lyon—the train station in Paris that you would frequent if you were heading out of the city to points south like Lyon, Avignon, Marseille, Nice, or Barcelona. Or planning a visit to ITER, for example!

2025-05-30 - As part of the new baseline research plan, the ITER Organization has identified the top R&D issues requiring consolidation or refinement. To make these R&D support needs more accessible to the fusion research community, they have been published as an ITER Technical Report. Download the report (dated 30 May 2025) at https://www.iter.org/scientists/iter-technical-reports.

2025-05-17 - Approximately 700 members of the public attend the ITER Open Doors Day organized on Saturday 17 May. With 75 volunteers on hand to present the project and answer questions, every visitor left with a better understanding of the scale and scope of the project and the advantages of fusion energy.

2025-05-13 - Travellers arriving at or leaving from the Marseille Provence Airport are met with striking photos of ITER, thanks to an exhibit of photographs from local artist Camille Moirenc who visited the ITER site nine times. His specialty? Looking for beauty ... "even where it is least expected."

2025-05-05 - This matrixed team, with magnet, cryogenics, electrical, instrumentation, control, vacuum, building, and procurement specialists, is working together to create a magnet cold test facility in the building formerly used to wind the poloidal field coils. At least three D-shaped toroidal field coils (one from every supplier) and one poloidal field coil (the smallest, PF1) will be tested at 4 K.

2025-04-27 - ITER and the potential of fusion energy are represented at the STARMUS festival in La Palma, Spain, in April 2025. At STARMUS, world-class organizations, scientists—many of them Nobel Prize laureates—astronauts and leading experts meet around the objective of “engaging humanity in the biggest questions of our time."

2025-04-24 - The 2025 ITER Business Forum in Marseille opens on 24 April with a plenary session given by ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi on ITER progress and key insights into the new ITER baseline. At least 1,100 people are attending the three-day event (23-25 April) focused on business opportunities in fusion energy.

2025-04-23 - The 2nd ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop concludes on 23 April after two days of conferences and networking at ITER Headquarters. More than 300 people take part—including startup company representatives, suppliers, researchers, advocates, and investors. Many went on to attend the ITER Business Forum in Marseille (23-25 April).

2025-04-13 - On the first day of the 2025 Osaka World Fair, the ITER stand attracts crowds. The exposition runs for six months, through 13 October, and a special day dedicated to fusion is planned on 13 July.

2025-04-10 - About 150 specialists take part in the lift operation on 10 April that brings sector module #7 into the tokamak pit (riggers, lifting crew and engineers from Chinese contractor CNPE/ITER supervisors and assembly experts/construction management-as-agent technicians and engineers/crane technical support from REEL/crane pilots from Foselev...) Part of the team is pictured here next to the sector module they have just installed.

2025-04-07 - Coconuts and cutting-edge fusion technology—an unlikely duo, yet a perfect match. ITER’s Robert Pearce presents Eric Giguet from Alsymex-Alcen with a coconut in appreciation of the successful manufacturing and delivery of eight torus and cryostat cryopumps for ITER.

2025-03-31 - US ITER and Oak Ridge National Laboratory host a visit from ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi on 31 March 2025. Highlights of the visit include the opportunity to present ITER status to the laboratory community, an informal US ITER all-hands Q&A session, and a visit to ORNL fusion labs including test stands for ITER plasma heating components and disruption mitigation studies.

2025-03-26 - In Paris on 26 March, the ITER Organization and Microsoft sign a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the use of AI and other digital technology tools in the areas of construction, plasma modelling, simulation, and high-performance computing. ITER Deputy Director-General and Chief Scientist Alain Bécoulet (right) speaks with Paul Emmanuel Very from French broadcaster BFM TV and Corinne de Bilbao, president of Microsoft France.

2025-03-25 - New augmented reality software has been deployed at ITER that allows plant assembly engineers and technicians to compare, with a simple tablet or smartphone, the "as-built" position of components to the 3D plans. Savings in both cost and time are expected as issues can be more easily identified.

2025-03-17 - The IT Project Tools Section has developed an AI-based chatbot that helps users to find what they are looking for within the 1.5 million documents contained in the ITER Document Management (IDM) system. It went quickly from a proof-or-concept to a production system that has already been queried 20,000 times.

2025-03-15 - The final cryopump for ITER has been successfully manufactured, factory acceptance tested, and delivered to the ITER site. The manufacturing milestone is the culmination of years of dedication and effort by the ITER Organization, the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy (F4E), and European contractors Research Instruments and Alsymex.

2025-02-25 - In accordance with the new ITER baseline, and changes foreseen to the configuration of the tokamak and its ancillary systems, the ITER Research Plan must be refined and checked for consistency. In February, ITER Organization staff and experts from the Members meet for three days to elaborate the details of the new blueprint.

2025-02-20 - ITER’s Deputy Director Alain Becoulet presents a comprehensive project update at binding.energy, an international gathering on nuclear technology held from 19-20 February in Aachen, Germany.

2025-02-12 - Stability, power density, scale ... ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi explains what scientists and engineers from the seven ITER Members—including Europe and India—are working so hard to achieve. During their 45-minute visit at ITER on 12 February 2025, Prime Minister Modi and President Macron were able to visit the major areas of ITER machine assembly. Credit: G. Lesénéchal/ITER Organization

2025-02-05 - Director-General Pietro Barabaschi participates in February in European Parliament hearings on Europe’s leadership in fusion energy, highlighting ITER’s pivotal role in advancing fusion as a viable energy source.

2025-02-03 - A new online boutique operated by ITER contractor Synneo proposes ITER-branded merchandise. Have a look at the selection of items at this address: https://shop-iter.org.

2025-02-03 - For one year now, 12 shift operation managers have been on duty rotation for 24/7 coverage of operational areas on the ITER site. Working from the temporary main control room (pictured) or on call, they coordinate daily activities and intervene in off-normal events when necessary.

2025-01-30 - On 30-31 January, the ITER In-Vessel Assembly Project conducts a comprehensive review of the assembly and installation processes for key in-vessel components, including the in-vessel coils and the blanket and divertor systems. Optimizing the sequence, the tools, and the logic underpinning these critical installation activities was the goal of the two-day meeting chaired by Doug Loesser from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

2025-01-27 - The ITER Organization has signed two new contracts with its logistics partner since 2012, the global group DAHER. One covers industrial and site logistics through 2028 (component management, including storage, preservation and availability); the other covers international logistics through 2031 (packaging, transport, customs, insurance...).

2025-01-23 - During ITER's latest Star Awards campaign, 79 people from across the project are recognized for exemplary performance in line with ITER's corporate values.

2025-01-20 - A new tool at ITER allows anyone in the project to access an integrated 3D model that takes them from the highest-level view of the entire site, all the way down to a millimetre-level view of any component of the machine or plant. Engineers designing systems can visualize complete environments, while installation teams can avoid clashes.

2025-01-14 - Cryoplant, vacuum, and ITER India contractor INOX-CVA team members pose in front of the new cryopump test facility—a test bench in the cryoplant designed to verify that ITER's powerful cryopumps perform as expected during actual tokamak operation. The test bench, which will require cryogenic fluids to test the cryopumps down to 4 K (minus 193 °C), will be the cryoplant's "first client."