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15 Jan 2024
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2024 Monaco-ITER campaign opens

Recruitment opens today for the next Monaco-ITER Postdoctoral Fellowship campaign. If your PhD was awarded after 1 January 2021—or if you are about to obtain one—and you are interested in participating in one of the...
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15 Jan 2024
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Involvement does not stop with delivery

On Friday 15 December 2023, as staff posed for a group photo in front of newly arrived toroidal field coil #18, Alessandro Bonito-Oliva, Head of the Tokamak Program at ITER since 1 November, was still wearing his Fusion...
X-ray tomography reveals thermal shield crack
15 Jan 2024
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Finding infinitesimal needles in a haystack

A cutting-edge X-ray process confirms microscopic cracking and keeps ITER on track to succeed.
Fusion energy and the hydrogen future
8 Jan 2024
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The hydrogen economy—brought to you by nuclear fusion?

Isotopes of hydrogen—deuterium and tritium—are the input for the fusion process. However what if, down the road, hydrogen could be an output of fusion power? What potential roles could nuclear fusion play in hydrogen...
Stored until needed
8 Jan 2024
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Across land and sea

A fourth central solenoid module shipped by US ITER reached the ITER site in the last days of 2023.
ITER and SWIP sign HL-3 collaboration agreement
18 Dec 2023
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ITER and China's SWIP partner for the future

The ITER Organization has signed an agreement for academic, scientific and technical cooperation with the Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP) in Chengdu, China.
Scientist fellows onsite
18 Dec 2023
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A productive week together on site

The ITER Scientist Fellow Network—composed of leading scientists and physicists in the domains of simulation and theory—are playing an important role in the re-baselining activity that is underway at the ITER...
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18 Dec 2023
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Fusion and climate—the conversation continues

Has fusion arrived on the big stage? It certainly seems so after the world summit on climate change that was recently held in Dubai, the iridescent hub of the United Arab Emirates. And promotion for this new source of...
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18 Dec 2023
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Number 18, the last of 19

In April 2020, within an interval of one week, the first two D-shaped toroidal field coils required for the ITER Tokamak were delivered to the ITER construction site. Procured by Europe and finalized in Italy, toroidal...
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18 Dec 2023
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A "formidable adventure" comes to an end

On Wednesday 13 December, Fusion for Energy Deputy Program Manager Romaric Darbour accepted a rather cumbersome gift: a steel cutaway of the Tokamak Complex mounted on a 1.650-tonne reinforced concrete base. Presented by...
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11 Dec 2023
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Fusion Forum Germany at ITER

Eighty people took part in the two-day German Fusion Forum in December, held for the first time at ITER Headquarters.
Festive moment
11 Dec 2023
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A feeling of community

Twelve years ago, Roger Pizot, the recently departed mayor of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, and Osamu Motojima, then Director-General of the ITER Organization, established a tradition. A few weeks before the end of every year...
A ceremonial lamp for knowledge and peace
11 Dec 2023
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Dedication and commitment in a "year of resilience"

During the fourth annual ITER Awards ceremony last week, prizes went to the teams that were perceived to have had a "major impact" on 2023 project activities.
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11 Dec 2023
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One more link in the chain

Providing cryogenic fluids to the superconducting magnets, cryopumps and other "clients" in the ITER machine requires a sophisticated distribution system that ramifies to deliver the cryoplant-originating fluids to their...
Bernard Pégourié: Fusion specialist remembered
4 Dec 2023
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Bernard Pégourié, physicist and mountaineer

The worldwide fusion community mourns Bernard Pégourié, of France's Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research (CEA-IRFM), who passed away on 25 November following a mountain climbing accident.
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4 Dec 2023
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Japan and Europe inaugurate largest tokamak in the world

It was 6:00 a.m. in La Bergerie, a former sheep barn located a few kilometres from ITER in the vast Château de Cadarache domain, and that had been converted in 2021 into a high-tech "remote experiment centre" by the...
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4 Dec 2023
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ITER Director-General meets Prime Minister Kishida

In Japan, the prime minister lives and works at the Prime Minister's Official Residence in central Tokyo, just a few blocks from the National Diet Building and the grounds of the Imperial Palace. It was in this modern...
A panettone-shaped delivery
4 Dec 2023
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Season wrapping

Although the travel distance is short, barely exceeding one hundred metres, the transfer of vacuum vessel sector #8 from the Assembly Hall, where it is presently stored , to the Cryostat Workshop where it will be...
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4 Dec 2023
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Fusion is making a splash

The 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP28, opened on 30 November in Dubai's Expo City—a sprawling conference centre built two years ago for the World Exhibition. One takeaway already is that fusion is no...
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27 Nov 2023
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More cladding and a new message

As the October sun sets on the ITER worksite, the cladding of the neutral beam power buildings takes on a golden hue. One after the other, each of the scientific buildings on the platform is given the ITER signature...