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Industry wall honours the companies building ITER

The ITER tokamak, with its millions of components and unprecedented technical specifications, is the physical realization of hundreds of engineering breakthroughs across multiple disciplines. While ITER’s plasma...

Radiofrequency Building ready for first gyrotrons

The new baseline, which demands more powerful radiowave plasma heating, has modified plans for the Radiofrequency Building. Initially designed to host both the electron and the ion cyclotron heating systems (ECRH and...

Filmmaker Enrico Masi probes the human element of ITER

The ITER project has been the subject of multiple documentary films. Most have been technically focused overviews of the project made for TV. The 2017 documentary Let There Be Light drew its tension and storyline from...

“Things are different now”

Can the rising tide of stellarator technology lift the entire fusion industry?

ITER Director-General visits India

ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi made stops in Mumbai and Hazira this month during a trip to India to visit with a key industrial partner.

The Tokamak Complex is fully painted

Five years and 40 specialists—that is what it took for European Domestic Agency contractors to completely cover the interior walls of the Tokamak Complex with several layers of specially formulated paint.

DIII-D tokamak passes 200,000 shots

The DIII-D tokamak team at General Atomics (San Diego, US) celebrated a big milestone this month—achieving, and passing, the 200,000th plasma shot since the device began operating in the mid-1980s.

1st European vacuum vessel sector has arrived

Of the nine vacuum vessel sectors that will form the ITER tokamak’s toroidal plasma chamber, four are procured by Korea and five by Europe. Over the past four years , three Korean sectors have been delivered, and the...

From high-tech robot to standard scratch pads

At one end of the repair process, an automatic welding robot worth several hundred thousand euros—adapted and equipped for the specific task of metal filling and build-up. At the other end, standard ultra-fine-grain...

Town hall on ITER at the American Physical Society

The plasma physics division of the American Physical Society (APS) held its 66th annual meeting from October 7-11 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). This venue provided an ideal opportunity to inform the US fusion community...

ITER @ October science festivals

Every October, before schools pause for two weeks of holiday, towns and cities in France open their municipal spaces to scientific experts of all stripes who are eager to share their areas of expertise with the general...

A glimpse into the future for commercial fusion reactors

Most of the USD 7 billion in investment in private fusion initiatives has gone to companies that are building devices from the ground up. But recently, another breed of entrepreneur has come onto the scene: industrial...

ITER Director-General visits Russia

The ITER Director-General was in Russia last week, meeting with stakeholders and holding technical meetings with colleagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

Sector 5 is on its way

The first vacuum vessel sector produced in Europe travelled last week between Monfalcone, Italy, and the French port of Fos-sur-Mer.

ITER Document Management system turns 20

Whatever its nature, every large project generates huge numbers of documents. And when project collaborators operate from different countries, as was the case for ITER in the early 2000s, the challenge is twofold...

Train traveller? Meet ITER

Anyone arriving at or leaving from the Aix-en-Provence high-speed train station this month is liable to learn a little about the ITER project, as there is hardly a waiting area or walkway that does not display large...

Latvia mints a fusion-themed coin

Last week, ITER Plant Installation Program Manager Bertrand Roques brought back a small but highly symbolic contribution to the ITER budget from a colloquium in Riga, Latvia—a 5-euro fusion-themed coin.

Innovative approaches and how ITER can help

More than 30 private fusion companies from around the world attended ITER's inaugural Private Sector Fusion Workshop in May 2024 . Four of them participated in a panel discussion on innovative fusion approaches, offering...

A vision turned into reality

Robert Aymar, who played a key role in the development of fusion research in France and worldwide, and who headed the ITER project for 10 years (1993-2003) before serving as CERN Director General from 2004 to 2008...

United in a common goal

Gathered on the ITER platform for a group photo (the first one since 2019, in pre-Covid times) the crowd looks impressive. Although several hundred strong, it represents only a portion of all the men and women involved...