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20 Jul, 2020

11th ITER International School

The 11th ITER International School will be held from 20 to 24 July 2020, hosted by Aix-Marseille University in Aix-en-Provence, France.

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ITER in Pictures

Staff photo, November 2019

When the 2017 staff photo was taken (in this very spot), the circular bioshield was still visible above the walls of the Tokamak Complex. Two years later, the bioshield is hidden in its concrete vault and the last elements of the roof structure are set to be posed. Against this spectacular backdrop, a portion of the 925 people currently employed as staff of the ITER Organization came out on 29 November 2019 for the traditional group photo. Photo: ITER Organization/Gérard Lesenechal

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Vacuum vessel manufacturing in Europe

Each of the nine ITER vacuum vessel sectors is formed from four "poloidal segments." In this photo, the lower segment of Sector 5 (the first sector in production in Europe*) is brought in to a Mangiarotti workshop for testing. Assembled from over 300 pieces of stainless steel, the component weighs 125 tonnes. *Europe has entrusted the fabrication of its portion of the ITER vacuum vessel to the AMW consortium (Ansaldo Nucleare, Mangiarotti, and Walter Tosto).

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25th ITER Council: all efforts converging toward the start of machine assembly

On 20-21 November 2019, the ITER Council meets for the twenty-fifth time since the signature of the ITER Agreement. The project is "on the path to success" thanks to the "One-ITER Team" and its "commitment to effective collaboration." This was the last ITER Council before the start of machine assembly (March 2020).

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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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And a second

Because the first module was lifted and installed without technical incident, European Domestic Agency contractors were able to proceed with a second lift on the same day.

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Arriving next at ITER

Shipped by China, these large in-cryostat feeders will be installed under the machine as the last link of 30- to 50-metre long magnet feeders that relay cryogens and electrical power into the ITER magnets.

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Progress on PF5—the first poloidal field coil produced on site

Poloidal field coil #5 (PF5), 17 metres in diameter, is the first coil produced by European Domestic Agency contractors in the winding facility on site. Coil vacuum pressure impregnation—when the entire winding pack is "impregnated" with epoxy resin to form a hardened assembly—is about to start.

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Upending tool arrives

The two halves of the upending tool (right) are headed for installation in the far right corner of the Assembly Hall, on the area of floor that has been painted.

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Busbars galore

Inside of the Magnet Power Conversion buildings, contractors are installing the first busbars. Approximately five kilometres of large, aluminium, water-cooled DC busbars connect the power converters to the magnets feeders.

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10-metre-long shafts

Thirteen vertical turbine pumps will take cooling water from deep in the hot basins and circulate it either to the cold basin, or through the installation's heat exchangers. The shafts, pictured, connect the rotor (impeller) to the motor.

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