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01 Mar, 2020

Recruiting Postdoctoral Fellows

The ITER Organization is recruiting now for the Monaco/ITER Postdoctoral Fellowship program. If you are a national of one of the ITER Members (China, ...
20 Jul, 2020

11th ITER International School

The 11th ITER International School will be held from 20 to 24 July 2020, hosted by Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France.
12 Oct, 2020

28th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC2020)

Every year, the Fusion Energy Conference brings together world actors in fusion around the latest scientific and technical results in nuclear fus...

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In The Press

Nuclear Engineering International

| More US funding for fusion research
IAEA

| Fusion Research in Southeast Asia: IAEA and ITER Support School in Thailand
Energy.gov

| Climbing the Staircase to Fusion
University of Wisconsin-Madison, College of Engineering

| New international fusion lab will drive stellarator innovation

ITER in Pictures

ITER Scientist Fellows and cutting-edge research for ITER

In the area of cutting-edge research—and particularly the sophisticated modelling of plasmas—the project is benefitting from the assistance of world-renowned experts through the ITER Scientist Fellow Network program. Sixty-six scientists are currently collaborating as Scientist Fellows while remaining employed at their home institutes; much of the coordination with ITER scientists takes place through email or teleconference (photo). See more here: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3390.

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A "zero-gravity" tool to help assembly contractors in tight places

A specific tool has been developed at MIFI, the joint ITER/French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) workshop, for the assembly of the steel elements that interlink the massive toroidal field coil cases at top and bottom. See more here: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3398.

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What does Brexit mean for ITER?

Although the United Kingdom has formally withdrawn from the European Union and Euratom, it has expressed strong interest in continuing to participate in the ITER Project. Until the terms of a new relationship can be negotiated, the ITER Council has agreed that all existing contracts—both with personnel and suppliers—shall be respected. The ITER Organization will be ready to support the arrangement identified when the parties concerned have determined a way forward.

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How ITER construction progresses

The ITER worksite. In steel grey: the completed buildings; in purple: buildings in progress; in blue: future buildings. © Fusion for Energy 2019

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On local TV

The ITER Director-General is interviewed by local French TV channel DICI in February. He is standing on the spot where—in just a few months—the base of the machine will sit..

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170 metres

Seeing the building from this angle, it's easy to imagine the overhead cranes travelling 170 metres from the entrance of the Assembly Hall (far left) to over the Tokamak assembly pit (far right). Cladding is advancing quickly.

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Next step: large fans

At the top of the building each cooling cell is topped by a "fan cylinder." Once installed, the twelve-blade fans will induce an upward draft.

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Elevated busbars

Thicker than railroad rails, steel-jacketed DC busbars are actively cooled by a constant flow of pressurized water. As many as 5 kilometres of busbars supplied by Russia will be installed, including these running half the length of the Magnet Power Conversion buildings on elevated supports.

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Site south

Much of the central area of the platform is dedicated to electrical power, with two identical buildings for magnet power conversion (centre), a small facility for reactive power compensation (further along to the right) and as yet unbuilt structures to house the neutral beam power supplies. Also visible is the European magnet winding facility (far left) and the ITER cryoplant (left).

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Installation of cooling fans

Ten 16 x 16-metre cooling cells will receive water from the hot basin and discharge it—once cooled—to the cold basin. Each cell is filled with hundreds of layers of corrugated plastic fill and equipped with a large fan (installation underway at the top of the building) that pulls air upward.

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