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21 Nov 2024
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Support for baseline approach

For the 35th time, the ITER Council has convened to review the progress of the ITER project, received presentations on the progress of construction, manufacturing, assembly, and licensing during its two day meeting on 20...
19 Nov 2024
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New engineering consortium to help complete work on site

Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Domestic Agency for ITER, has signed a major new contract for engineering services on the ITER construction site.
19 Nov 2024
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Launch of the Private Sector Fusion Engagement project

In recent years, ITER’s conversations with private sector fusion startups have followed a familiar refrain: “ We don’t all agree on the best technological path to fusion power. We often disagree on the timeline to...
19 Nov 2024
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First set of gyrotrons soon to be installed

Like soup in a microwave oven, the ITER plasma will be heated¹ by electromagnetic waves at frequencies that increase the velocity of the particles, and hence the plasma’s temperature. But contrary to a microwave oven...
19 Nov 2024
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Two sectors now in assembly

A vacuum vessel sector standing in an assembly tool is a strikingly beautiful sight. Two sectors being assembled in parallel, each in a dedicated tool, is a comforting one—the unmistakable sign that the momentum is back.
12 Nov 2024
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4th Korean vacuum vessel sector delivered

In November 2008, Kijung Jung, head of the Korean Domestic Agency, signed the Procurement Arrangement for two vacuum vessel sectors for the ITER tokamak. Later, it would take on another two sectors under direct ITER...
12 Nov 2024
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In Rome meeting, fusion is a priority

At the inaugural ministerial meeting of the IAEA World Fusion Energy Group (WFEG) on 6 November in Rome, participants agreed that bringing fusion to commercialization will require cross-border and cross-sector...
12 Nov 2024
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Climate conference opens in Baku

With 2024 on track to be the warmest year on record, the world climate summit opened on 11 November in Baku, Azerbaijan, with urgent calls for action to mitigate the effects of climate change.
12 Nov 2024
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Which walls remain?

It is a grey November morning in Berlin as the taxi passes the Brandenburg Gate. Heavy construction works are underway all around the emblematic monument, and on the boulevard Unter den Linden, as the German capital...
12 Nov 2024
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Aiming for three times as fast

In July 2023, ITER carried out the most delicate handling operation it had ever performed: the removal of vacuum vessel sector module #6, which had been installed in the tokamak pit two years previously. The extraction...
4 Nov 2024
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Industry wall honours the companies building ITER

The ITER tokamak, with its millions of components and unprecedented technical specifications, is the physical realization of hundreds of engineering breakthroughs across multiple disciplines. While ITER’s plasma...
4 Nov 2024
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Radiofrequency Building ready for first gyrotrons

The new baseline, which demands more powerful radiowave plasma heating, has modified plans for the Radiofrequency Building. Initially designed to host both the electron and the ion cyclotron heating systems (ECRH and...
4 Nov 2024
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Filmmaker Enrico Masi probes the human element of ITER

The ITER project has been the subject of multiple documentary films. Most have been technically focused overviews of the project made for TV. The 2017 documentary Let There Be Light drew its tension and storyline from...
4 Nov 2024
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“Things are different now”

Can the rising tide of stellarator technology lift the entire fusion industry?
29 Oct 2024
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ITER Director-General visits India

ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi made stops in Mumbai and Hazira this month during a trip to India to visit with a key industrial partner.
29 Oct 2024
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The Tokamak Complex is fully painted

Five years and 40 specialists—that is what it took for European Domestic Agency contractors to completely cover the interior walls of the Tokamak Complex with several layers of specially formulated paint.
29 Oct 2024
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DIII-D tokamak passes 200,000 shots

The DIII-D tokamak team at General Atomics (San Diego, US) celebrated a big milestone this month—achieving, and passing, the 200,000th plasma shot since the device began operating in the mid-1980s.
29 Oct 2024
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1st European vacuum vessel sector has arrived

Of the nine vacuum vessel sectors that will form the ITER tokamak’s toroidal plasma chamber, four are procured by Korea and five by Europe. Over the past four years , three Korean sectors have been delivered, and the...
29 Oct 2024
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From high-tech robot to standard scratch pads

At one end of the repair process, an automatic welding robot worth several hundred thousand euros—adapted and equipped for the specific task of metal filling and build-up. At the other end, standard ultra-fine-grain...
29 Oct 2024
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Town hall on ITER at the American Physical Society

The plasma physics division of the American Physical Society (APS) held its 66th annual meeting from October 7-11 in Atlanta, Georgia (USA). This venue provided an ideal opportunity to inform the US fusion community...