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New agreement ratified for the Neutral Beam Test Facility

The ITER Organization and the Italian consortium Consorzio RFX sign a new agreement governing the construction and operation of the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility. In a first phase, testbed results will inform the procurement of components for the ITER system. After operation starts at ITER, by 2032, the facility in Padua, Italy, will be a testbed for ongoing performance enhancement.

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Good luck!

On 23 July 2019, ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot, India's Ambassador to France Vinay Mohan Kwatra, and the former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission of India, Anil Kakodkar, symbolically smash a bottle of French champagne on a large chunk of steel representing the ITER cryostat. Two sections (60% of cryostat work scope) have been finalized.

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Cryostat base: completed by India

Following factory acceptance tests in the Cryostat Workshop, the completed base of the cryostat (1,250 tonnes) has been declared officially "receivable" by the ITER Organization. It will remain in the Cryostat Workshop until it is installed in the machine pit.

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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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New agreement ratified for the Neutral Beam Test Facility

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Celebrating together

The ITER Director-General is pictured with Praveen Bhatt, Joint General Manager for Larsen & Toubro; India's Ambassador to France, His Excellency Vinay Mohan Kwatra; and ITER's Prabhat Kumar, Deputy to the Site Construction Director.

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Two mounted

Two mock loads were built in Scotland by Doosan Babcock and shipped to ITER for assembly. They represent a combined weight of 700 tonnes, now mounted on the tool SSAT#1. Rotational tests begin late in July.

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Successful high voltage tests for MITICA

Engineers from the European Domestic Agency (F4E), Consorzio RFX, ITER Japan, ITER Organization, and the companies involved in fabrication of the MITICA high voltage deck and high voltage bushing assemblies are pictured in the NBTF High Voltage Hall below the connection between the insulating transformer from Japan (left) and the high voltage deck from Europe (right) after a series of successful high voltage tests.

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The pit, all aglow

Raw concrete in the Tokamak assembly pit has given way to the smooth shiny surface of white paint. Teams have been working to complete the job in this 25,000 cubic-metre space since early March; now only finishing touches remain.

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A chamber for the first-built coil

This cryogenic chamber is dimensioned especially for poloidal field coil #6 (PF6) which, at 10 metres in diameter, is the second smallest ring magnet. The coil will arrive this autumn from China, where it was manufactured on behalf of the European Domestic Agency. Cold tests will take place in this chamber at 80 K. Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

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