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20 Oct, 2018

ITER Open Doors Day - October 2018

The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site on Saturday 20 ...
07 Nov, 2018

FuseNet PhD Event at ITER

The ITER Organization will be hosting a fusion PhD event at ITER Headquarters (Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France) from 7 to 9 November 2018.

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ITER in Pictures

Shapers of European science

The autumn assembly of the EIROforum takes place at ITER early October. The forum reunites eight European intergovernmental research organizations (CERN and ESA among them) in support of European science and the fostering of innovation and technology transfer.

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The 400-page ITER plan

The ITER Science Division has released the most recent version of the ITER Research Plan, a 400-page document that describes the present vision for operating the ITER Tokamak from First Plasma through high-fusion-gain deuterium-tritium operation. The Research Plan can be consulted or downloaded at this address: https://www.iter.org/technical-reports.

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Up they go

This ITER-specific assembly tool is about to enter manufacturing in Korea. It will be needed next year in the Assembly Hall to "upend" some of ITER's largest components from their horizontal delivery position, to vertical.

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The seven-storey Tokamak Complex

This detailed cutaway shows the buildings of the Tokamak Complex (Tritium, Tokamak and Diagnostics buildings, from left to right) and the seismic isolation system underneath the Complex. Once the Tokamak Building has been completed, and it matches the height of the Assembly Building, the temporary wall between them will come down and the rails for the heavy lift overhead cranes (in yellow) will be extended.

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Seeing the fruit of their efforts

As part of its 45.6% contribution to ITER, Europe is building all of the facilities and technical areas of the scientific installation. Early in October about 120 staff members of Fusion for Energy (the European Domestic Agency responsible for managing Europe's contribution) toured the site together—some of them visiting all the way from Barcelona.

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Reinforced zone

The asphalt in front of the Cryostat Workshop has been reinforced in order to receive the 490-tonne lower cylinder. Once completed this cryostat component will be stored in this exterior area under a protective "cocoon."

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Circles of support

800 tonnes of concrete and 224 tonnes of steel went into the concrete structure (circular and radial walls) that will support the combined mass of the machine and the enveloping cryostat. The realization opens the way to machine assembly.

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In a see-through cage

The SPIDER beam source has been fitted out with a Faraday cage. This metallic grid reduces the probability of arch discharge effects induced by the radio frequency (RF) circuit, while allowing the visual inspection of the RF drivers.

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