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20 Jul, 2020

11th ITER International School

The 11th ITER International School will be held in 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...
06 Apr, 2021

ITER Business Forum 2021

The next ITER Business Forum (IBF/21) will be organized in Marseille, France, from 6 to 8 April 2021. The event offers business ...

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ITER in Pictures

Fusion family

The ITER Organization has been fortunate to have the strong and generous support of its Members during the COVID-19 pandemic. We received recently protective facemasks from our partners in China (ASIPP institute, CNNC and the CNPE consortium) and Korea (KEPCO E&C). These masks are essential to helping the on-site ITER Organization, Domestic Agency and contractor teams to stay safe as they continue to carry out critical operations on site.

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Korea completes the vacuum vessel thermal shield

Each of the nine vacuum vessel sectors will be fitted with silver-coated thermal shield panels, actively cooled to 80 K to minimize heat loads transferred by thermal radiation and conduction. The last panels have been finalized in Korea.

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Coping with COVID-19

Beginning 16 March 2020, the ITER Organization adjusts the organization of its work in order to respect all precautionary measures recommended by the World Health Organization and the French government in the face of the dramatic worldwide spread of the COVID-19 virus. The focus is on ensuring the safety and wellbeing of ITER staff and collaborators while maintaining critical activities. All non-essential staff is teleworking.

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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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Spreading the load

Between the overhead heavy lift cranes and the component are yellow "spreader beams" that share the weight of the component and eliminate any tilt.

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Penultimate test

Every aspect of the lift operation has been choreographed and practiced in advance of the big day. In one critical test on 20 May, the cryostat base is lifted six metres and then set back onto its supports.

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Deep in the Tokamak Complex

Welding the pipes inside the multi-process cryolines is a challenging operation, sometimes performed in an extremely cramped environment.

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Covers off

One of the last things to do at the bottom of the Tokamak pit—uncover the cryostat bearings, which until now had been hidden under thick protective wrapping.

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Preparing the base for lifting

Standing inside the "dish" of the cryostat base, these employees are involved in the preparations for the "big lift," when the overhead cranes raise this 1,250-load high overhead and then travel to the Tokamak pit. As a preparatory activity, the base will be raised a few centimetres in the week to come.

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Cryostat base enters building

Cryostat base enters building Installation contractors have moved the cryostat base from its fabrication workshop on site into the Assembly Hall. (The big lift to the Tokamak Building will take place next month.) The Indian Domestic Agency has delivered the completed component in collaboration with main contractor Larsen & Toubro Heavy Engineering (manufacturing design, segment fabrication in India and assembly at ITER) and MAN Energy Solutions, Germany (Larsen & Toubro sub-contractor for on-site welding).

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