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Far from ITER, in the heart of the Tokamak

In ITER Member factories on three continents, manufacturing has begun for the components of the ITER Tokamak. Here's a look inside the Hyundai shipyard in Korea where two of the nine ITER vacuum vessel sectors are under construction. [...]

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Welcome to the machine!

Tokamak: the name is an acronym from the Russian 'toroidal chamber, magnetic coils.' It describes a type of particularly efficient fusion machine that was deve [...]

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The DT shots heard 'round the world

Reproducing in a man-made machine the physical reactions that occur at the core of the Sun has been the aim of fusion research for the past 60 years. Building [...]

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A successful journey ... to be replicated 200 times

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Serving science, serving peace

ITER has always been more than an international research project. When in the early 1980s scientists urged for the construction of a large machine that would d [...]

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Who does what?

The ITER Project and its division of tasks between multiple actors can be confusing. Below are some elements of response to the question: 'Who does what at ITE [...]

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Where are we at?

On a vast plot of land in southern France, the ITER scientific installation is taking shape. Let's take stock of construction progress, three years after works began. [...]

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ITER MAG 1

Dec 2013