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20 Jan 2025
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Ready to enter commissioning

Inside the ITER vacuum vessel, where the fusion reactions will occur, the ultra-high vacuum is comparable to that on the Moon. Conventional mechanical pumping alone is not sufficient to create such an extreme environment...
20 Jan 2025
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Seeing ITER at millimetre-level resolution

Since last year, anyone at ITER can have access to an integrated 3D model that takes them from the highest-level view of the entire site, all the way down to a millimetre-level view of any component of the machine or...
13 Jan 2025
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Helping to develop a state-of-the-art neutron diagnostic

An international consortium is working together to deliver a high-performance diagnostic system essential for ITER’s mission—the high-resolution neutron spectrometer.
13 Jan 2025
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And what did you do during the holidays?

Working on site during the annual office closure period is certainly not everyone's idea of an end-of-year holiday...
13 Jan 2025
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First CODAC command issued

Pressure and levels? Nominal. Valves? Open. Protections? In place. As all “permissives” are go , the process can now be activated. A click of a mouse and—in a building more than half a kilometre away—a powerful pump...
13 Jan 2025
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Only two more to go

On 19 December 2024, one year almost to the day after it was delivered , a fourth module was installed on top of the existing central solenoid stack. Standing on its bespoke platform, the massive, tower-like structure...
13 Jan 2025
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The art and science of calibration

Many of the components that make up the ITER device require sub-millimetre accuracy for assembly—a feat accomplished with specialized metrology equipment that is calibrated at regular intervals.
Modelling plasma
13 Jan 2025
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14th ITER International School will focus on integrated modelling

The 14th ITER International School (IIS) will be held from 30 June to 4 July in Aix-en-Provence, France, hosted by Aix-Marseille University.
16 Dec 2024
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On magnetic fusion diagnostics and data science

The 13th ITER International School concluded successfully in Nagoya, Japan, on 13 December after five days of lectures and discussions. Nearly 200 people from 21 countries participated.
16 Dec 2024
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ITER links two 2025 events

Next April, two important fusion events will be sequenced into a single intensive week. The second ITER Private Sector Workshop will be hosted at ITER on 22-23 April, and the ITER Business Forum ( IBF/25), a fusion...
16 Dec 2024
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Colleagues pay tribute to Robert Aymar

The physicists and engineers who worked with him, some as early as the late 1960s, gathered at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commision’s Cadarache site (CEA-Cadarache) last week to pay a tribute to...
16 Dec 2024
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Many causes for celebration

During the fifth annual ITER Awards ceremony in December, prizes went to teams with a strong track record of delivering in 2024.
16 Dec 2024
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Racing against concrete

For eight years, between 2012 and 2020, a large concrete batching plant operated on the ITER platform. Mixing gravel and sand, cement, water and additives, it produced a wide range of concrete formulas, each adapted to...
Academician Velikhov: a visionary for ITER
9 Dec 2024
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Evgeny Velikhov (1935-2024)

Deep in outer space, a small celestial body bears a name familiar to the worldwide fusion community. Orbiting between Mars and Jupiter, asteroid Velikhov was named in honour of Russian physicist Evgeny Velikhov, a major...
2 Dec 2024
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Magnetic field tests help prepare for operation

Components installed in the ITER Tokamak Complex will be exposed to magnetic fields to varying degrees. To test the resistance of these components before operation, and to avoid the risk of dysfunction, samples are being...
2 Dec 2024
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Christmas away from home

Eighteen years ago, ITER, one of the largest research projects ever established, found a home in a small Provençal village—Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, pop. 956. A few years later, the ITER Organization moved into a building...
2 Dec 2024
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“Like operating a mini-ITER”

On cold and crisp mornings, vapour can be seen rising from the ITER cooling cells. The tenuous plumes indicate that heat is being produced by the installation and evacuated by way of the heat rejection system. Since...
25 Nov 2024
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Celebrating deliveries

Of the nine vacuum vessel sectors required to form the tokamak’s toroidal plasma chamber, five are already present on site. In the ITER Assembly Hall, two are being assembled into modules that will be installed later in...
25 Nov 2024
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An increasing interest in ITER and fusion

Located not far from the city centre, the round, modern structure of the Baku Stadium usually hosts thousands of sports enthusiasts as they cheer on their teams. For two weeks in November, the world climate summit took...
25 Nov 2024
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DeLeah Lockridge now leading engineering services at ITER

DeLeah Lockridge, previously a senior R&D staff member in the Nuclear Operations and Licensing group at the United States Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has joined the ITER Organization as...