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21 Jan, 2019

10th 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 associat...
26 Mar, 2019

ITER Business Forum 2019

The ITER Business Forum (IBF/19) will be organized in Antibes, France, from 26 to 28 March 2019. Organized by Agence...

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ITER in Pictures

ITER @ COP24

The ITER Project has its hour at the 24th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice, Poland, as Gregory de Temmerman presents "ITER - The way to Clean and Safe Energy." You can watch the presentation, which took place in the participatory Action Hub space for climate change initiatives, on the UNFCCC website. (Click on Climate Action/Events/Action Hub/On-demand/Morning Session 6 December)

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Designing the disruption mitigation system in the US

US ITER engineers based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are developing the design of the disruption mitigation system. Pictured is the preliminary port layout for shattered pellet injectors, which shoot massive amounts of neon and argon into the plasma in the form of solid ice particles (shattered into small particles) to disperse the energy of a disruption.

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23rd ITER Council: Pace and performance on track

The ITER Council convenes on 14-15 November 2018 to review the performance of the ITER Project toward First Plasma in 2025. By evaluating the progress of manufacturing, construction and installation against established performance metrics, the delegates confirm that the ITER Organization and Domestic Agencies are sustaining a vigorous pace and robust performance, with nearly 60% of the total work scope to First Plasma achieved.

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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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ITER @ COP24

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Lower galleries

This opening in the 3.5-metre-thick bioshield was specially designed to house the part of the feeder that crosses through the bioshield and cryostat—the feedthrough. Thirty-one feeders in all will find their way through galleries like this to reach the ITER magnets.

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Important arteries

Cable drums are lined up outside of the ITER cryoplant, where tray laying and cable pulling activities are about to start. A total of 10,000 kilometres of cables will be needed at ITER to connect components, provide power and transmit data.

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Power supply equipment for MITICA

Equipment arrives for the MITICA power sources, delivered by the European Domestic Agency. Centre: the power supply for MITICA's residual ion dump (manufactured by OCEM ET, Italy); at left, the conversion system for the acceleration grid power supply (manufactured by Nidec ASI, Italy).

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A peek into the Cryostat Workshop

The lower cylinder of the cryostat is seen through the open doors of the workshop.

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For the alignment of machine components and plant systems

A vast network of fiducial target nests installed on the concrete surfaces of the bioshield, port cells and galleries will enable installation contractors to align components to sub-millimetre accuracy. Advanced software was used to lay out the positions of each instrument station and simulate clear lines of sight to the fiducial nests. This simulated measurement geometry was used to predict the measurement uncertainty to be expected, which was subsequently qualified with real measurement data. (Pictured: one level of the Tokamak Complex)

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