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18 Jun, 2022

ITER Open Doors Day - June 2022

The ITER Organization and the European agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, will be hosting tours of the ITER construction site for the general publ...
25 Jul, 2022

11th ITER International School

The ITER International School aims to prepare young scientists/engineers for work in the field of nuclear fusion and in research applications assoc...
04 Apr, 2023

2023 ITER Business Forum

The next ITER Business Forum will take place in Marseille, France, from 4 to 6 April 2023. The event will offer bu...
10 Sep, 2023

MT-28 International Conference on Magnet Technology

Join the world's foremost experts in all aspects of magnet technology from 10 to 15 September 2023 in Aix-en-Provence, France, for...

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ITER in Pictures

ITER community pays tribute to Director-General Bigot

Two days after the news that Director-General Bernard Bigot had passed away over the weekend, the ITER community pays tribute to its inspirational leader. The most frequent word in the memory book so far: "Thank you."

Download 16 May 2022

ITER achieves major lift

On 11 May 2022, the ITER Organization team achieves a major assembly milestone: lifting the first sub-section of the ITER plasma chamber out of tooling and lowering it into the machine well.

Download 11 May 2022

Future control room

Looking southwest, with the Tokamak Complex in the background, this is the 43 m x 18 m main control room. Its steel structure is in place and roof cladding will soon be installed. The room will have a raised floor 70 centimetres above the present slab to accommodate the dense cabling that will transport power and data to the various control desks.

Download 05 May 2022

Commissioning the liquid nitrogen (LN2) plant

As part of LN2 plant commissioning, this liquid nitrogen tank is being filled to 80% of its capacity to verify the rate of evaporation, which should not exceed 0.16 percent of the total volume per day. The tank in the photo has a capacity of 300 cubic metres.

Download 29 April 2022

Neutral beam heating power supply: buildings rising

From the roof of the Diagnostics Building, we are looking directly down at the site of the future ITER Neutral Beam Power Supply buildings, currently under construction by European Domestic Agency (Fusion for Energy) contractors.

Download 25 April 2022

On the road to ITER

This manufactured component—a 440-tonne vacuum vessel sector from Korea—is travelling along the ITER Itinerary to the project site. It takes approximately two months for a major component like this to be shipped from its manufacturing facility to ITER.

Download 30 March 2022

ITER welcomes US Senator Manchin

United States Senator Joe Manchin (third from left) tours the ITER site on 25 March in the company of Tim Luce, ITER Chief Scientist (centre), Kathy McCarthy, Director of the US ITER Project (fourth from right), and Laban Coblentz, Head of Communication (third from right). The scale of the ITER undertaking and the international collaboration behind it inspired Senator Manchin to say, "What you are all doing here is laying the ground for world peace."

Download 25 March 2022

Central solenoid

A tall electromagnet--the central solenoid--is at the heart of the ITER Tokamak. It both initiates plasma current and drives and shapes the plasma during operation. Image: US ITER

Download 12 August 2020