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Celebrating the cold valve boxes
27 Nov 2023
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Cold boxes 20 years in the making

Twenty years—that is how long it took to design, manufacture and deliver the cold valve boxes that regulate the flow of cryogens to the tokamak's vacuum system. Last week, as the first of the eight first-of-a-kind...
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27 Nov 2023
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Face to face with ITER immensity

In October 2011, when ITER organized its first "Open Doors Day," there was little to show and much to leave to the public's imagination: the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility wasn't yet finalized, the electrical...
All about converting neutrons to electricity
27 Nov 2023
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Turning neutrons into electricity

How will the power generated by nuclear fusion reactions be converted into electricity? That is not a question that ITER has been designed to answer explicitly, since the heat generated during ITER operation will be...
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27 Nov 2023
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JET completes a storied 40-year run

In its final deuterium-tritium experimental campaign, Europe's JET tokamak device demonstrated plasma scenarios that are expected on ITER and future fusion power plants, offering critical insights into key aspects such...
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20 Nov 2023
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Toward public-private synergies

In recent years, the private fusion industry has seen massive growth. The companies involved vary in technology, strategies, and levels of funding, but all move the global fusion community a step closer towards a shared...
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17 Nov 2023
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Making progress, preparing an updated baseline

Like clockwork, the life of the ITER project is punctuated by biannual ITER Council meetings in June and November every year. Months in advance, reports are produced and reviewed by relevant specialists at the ITER...
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6 Nov 2023
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Tricky reflections

Ahead of repairs, sector module #6, which was extracted from the tokamak pit in early July, is being dismantled in one of the twin sub-assembly tools. One toroidal field coil has already been removed and placed into...
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6 Nov 2023
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Experts share research updates and progress

A lucky set of circumstances brought together different experts on neutral beam injection for a few days at ITER in October. Achieving the requirements for the ITER neutral beam system in terms of power, energy, and...
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6 Nov 2023
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D-shaped coils will be tested at 4 K

The ITER superconducting magnets will operate at 4 K (minus 269 °C, a temperature barely above absolute zero) and will carry extremely strong electrical current (up to 68 kA). How will these first-of-kind components...
2023 Nuclear Fusion prize awarded
30 Oct 2023
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A prize-winning story of metallic melting in tokamaks

An obvious property of metals is that they melt, and metallic components directly facing the plasma are one thing ITER has a whole lot of. A total surface area of about 800 m² to be more precise. What happens when they...
California legislators visit ITER
30 Oct 2023
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California lawmakers and environmentalists explore ITER

Members of the California Foundation on the Environment and the Economy (CFEE) travel the world to study the most significant initiatives in terms of environmental preservation and innovation.
Fusion Energy Conference returns in person
23 Oct 2023
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At a "crucial moment" in fusion development

The regular chimes of Big Ben sound in the background; the British Parliament is just around the corner. For one week in October London's Westminster City—the bustling political power centre of the United Kingdom...
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23 Oct 2023
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Making fusion fun

Bringing ITER out into the community was the job of 14 volunteers in October, as the ITER Organization participated two weekends in a row in France's annual Festival of Science (Fête de la Science).
Model United Nations @ ITER
23 Oct 2023
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A United Nations plenary in the ITER amphitheatre

Speaking and acting as seasoned diplomats and referring to one another as "the honourable representative" of the country they chose to represent, one hundred French high-school students took the stage in the ITER...
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16 Oct 2023
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More results from JET's record-breaking 2021 campaign

In 2021, researchers from the European consortium EUROfusion introduced the high-performance fuel mix of deuterium and tritium into the JET tokamak for only the second time in its history. The "DTE2" campaign that...
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16 Oct 2023
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A coat of boron to capture impurities

Impurities, in the form of particles detached from materials inside the vacuum vessel, can be among a plasma's worst enemies. Even in trace amounts, they drain energy from the plasma, degrade its performance and lead in...
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16 Oct 2023
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There goes the unique spreader beam

Of all the lifting devices used on the ITER construction site, the circular spreader beam in the European Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility was among the most spectacular and uncommon. Designed to transport coil...
Final concrete pour for Tritium Building
16 Oct 2023
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Final concrete pour and other updates

Because most of its systems will only be needed when ITER operates at full nuclear power, work on the Tritium Building was put on hold in 2018, only to resume in the spring of 2021. Two-and-a-half years later, civil...
Construction begins at IFMIF-DONES
9 Oct 2023
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Breaking ground at IFMIF-DONES

Construction is now underway in Granada, Spain on the IFMIF-DONES project (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility-Demo Oriented NEutron Source). The facility aims to solve one of the key roadblocks towards...
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9 Oct 2023
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Director-General Barabaschi visits Japan

Japan is a very familiar place for ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi. His past position as the Director of the Broader Approach activities at the European Domestic Agency, Fusion for Energy, led him to visit Japan...