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26 Feb 2024
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Last measurements before campaign

In order to precisely identify the bevel regions that need to be rectified, metrologists from the SIMANN (SIMIC-Ansaldo) consortium are performing ultra-precise measurements on both sides of vacuum vessel sector #7. In a...
SPIDER beam source re-installed at RFX
19 Feb 2024
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After upgrades, SPIDER testbed set to restart

After a two-year shutdown for upgrades, the SPIDER testbed at the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility in Padua, Italy, is preparing for commissioning and operation. SPIDER is a full-size negative ion source that is designed...
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19 Feb 2024
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Jointly preparing a new blueprint

As part of work underway to update the ITER Project Baseline, a group of experts nominated by the Members met in February to evaluate the new blueprint for achieving ITER's research goals.
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19 Feb 2024
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Component transfer goes electric

On Friday 16 February, a toroidal field coil was moved from the Assembly Hall to a storage place a few hundred metres away. Quite a routine operation at ITER, and yet this transfer was a world premiere. The trailer that...
ITER leadership meets Indian officials
19 Feb 2024
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Director-General Barabaschi visits India

Following his visit to China , Japan and Korea last autumn, ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi continued his tour of ITER stakeholders with a two-day visit to India on 5-6 February.
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19 Feb 2024
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Increasing fusion performance with energetic-particle-driven instabilities

New results published in Physical Review Letters suggest that instabilities driven by energetic particles can have a positive impact on fusion performance.
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12 Feb 2024
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Where are we at?

From a strict industrial point of view, repairing the dimensional non-conformities that affect the ITER vacuum vessel sectors is not an insurmountable task. What needs to be done can be formulated quite simply: filling...
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12 Feb 2024
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Predicting deformation ahead of repair

Metrologists are required to assess the structural changes resulting from repairs—but in order to do so, they have to quantify several sources of variation.
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12 Feb 2024
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JET beats its own record

European researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility have announced that a new fusion energy record was achieved during the device's final campaign in late 2023.
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5 Feb 2024
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A wealth of data harvested

In January, ITER scientists teamed up with colleagues at the EAST tokamak in Hefei, China, for a run of joint physics experiments. The experiments were designed to address specific ITER questions on the reliability and...
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5 Feb 2024
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JT-60SA team shares experience with ITER

JT-60SA, a collaboration between Europe and Japan, began operating last year as the world's largest tokamak. This week, the JT-60SA integrated project team is holding a technical coordination meeting at ITER—and taking...
Advancing integrated modelling at ITER
5 Feb 2024
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Collaborating to advance tokamak integrated modelling

Present-day tokamak integrated modelling development activities put significant emphasis on the development of high-fidelity physics models to extrapolate physics understanding obtained from current experiments to future...
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5 Feb 2024
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ITER in a spaceship

Close to 30,000 people attended the Yggdrasil festival this past weekend at EUREXPO in Lyon, France's third largest city. Named after a central element of Nordic mythology, the sacred tree Yggdrasil, the event brought...
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5 Feb 2024
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Repaired thermal shield elements leave Indian facility

Three panels from the vacuum vessel thermal shield sets that were sent to India for repair are now heading back to ITER to be reassembled.
NSTX-U: exploring spherical tokamak design
29 Jan 2024
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NSTX-U prepares to re-enter the fusion energy conversation

NSTX-U, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory's spherical tokamak, is nearing a return to operations. The device will investigate the strengths of the spherical design as a viable route to scalable fusion power plants...
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29 Jan 2024
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AI shows promise in unique European trial

Artificial intelligence performs well in predicting weld defects during a novel trial designed by the European Domestic Agency (Fusion for Energy) vacuum vessel team.
Helium compressor trains
29 Jan 2024
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The heat that came in from the cold

Reducing energy consumption is one of the major challenges of our time. It can be addressed at an individual level, like deciding to replace an old oil boiler with an efficient heat pump system or switching from...
Monaco-ITER Fellows
22 Jan 2024
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Contributing to critical science

Since late 2022, these Monaco-ITER Postdoctoral Fellows have been working alongside ITER specialists on topics of particular importance to the ITER Research Plan.
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22 Jan 2024
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Cybersecurity made fun and effective

In today's digital age, everything we do online is exposed to cyber risks. Cyberattacks can compromise our personal data, our professional work at the ITER Organization, but also ITER networks, data and even its...
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22 Jan 2024
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Of tokamaks, hummingbirds and pizza ovens

A common but oversimplistic way of describing fusion is claiming that it's all about reproducing the nuclear reactions that occur in the core of the Sun. In a presentation to non-specialists on 18 January, ITER Director...