2025-07-01 - The blanket manifold system feeds cooling water to the different blanket modules through pipes arranged in bundles and routed mostly through the upper ports of the vacuum vessel. In Europe, the German company Dockweiler and its supplier DMV have completed 18 km of nuclear-grade stainless steel pipes for the manifold project, which will be shipped out to the different manifold suppliers. ©F4E

2025-05-05 - In record time, a magnet cold test facility has been designed, procured and essentially manufactured. Part of risk mitigation measures decided as part of the new ITER baseline, it will be used to test at least three toroidal field coils and one poloidal field coil at 4 K (minus 269 °C). See a recent report here: https://www.iter.org/node/20687/fast-track-operation.

2025-04-29 - This 110-tonne superconducting magnet will be the sixth and last module stacked to form the tower-like central solenoid. It has passed all testing at the General Atomics magnet facility (US) and will ship out to ITER this summer. Photo: General Atomics

2025-04-22 - A mirror prototype for the wide-angle viewing system (WAVS) diagnostic undergoes thermal cycling tests at Spain's Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA). WAVS, which is under the procurement responsibility of Europe, will capture visible and infrared light from the divertor and the main chamber wall to provide real-time measurements of surface temperature. Photo credit: INTA

2025-04-05 - Early in April, representatives from Fusion for Energy (the European Domestic Agency), ITER Organization and supplier SIMIC-CSI gathered at the SIMIC premises in Italy to witness the first factory acceptance tests performed on a divertor cassette production unit. Fifty-four of these strangely shaped "chassis" elements will be installed at the bottom of the machine in a ring. Actively cooled through pressurized water, they will support plasma-facing "targets" coated in tungsten, which has the highest melting point of any metal.

2025-03-19 - Technetics, a company supplying vacuum seals to the ITER project, brings its production team to the ITER site on 19 March to see how its products are used. (The picture was taken during a lunch break in Gréoux-les-Bains.)

2025-03-17 - US ITER has completed delivery of all components for the support structure of the central solenoid, including tie plates (one is pictured) and key blocks. The support structure can be described as an exoskeleton, or a cage, that surrounds the central solenoid magnets to hold them in place and withstand the extreme force that the central solenoid will generate. Credit: US ITER

2025-03-15 - Six torus exhaust and two cryostat cryopumps have been delivered for the ITER machine. These complex pumps, made to order for ITER with the world's largest all-metal valve and activated charcoal coatings for cryo-sorption, will help create and maintain the vacuum conditions required by ITER operation.

2025-03-06 - Contractors to Fusion for Energy, the European Domestic Agency, have completed vacuum vessel sector #4. The 440-tonne component will leave the Walter Tosto factory in Italy this month for shipment to ITER where it will be the sixth sector received on site. ©Walter Tosto