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Toward high-availability scientific data storage
11 Sep 2023
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Partnerships help prepare for operation

ITER has been nurturing partnerships with big tech companies and the larger scientific community to help store, distribute and analyze all the data that will be produced from experiments.
Central solenoid  corner
11 Sep 2023
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The stacking has begun

The central solenoid is one of the most massive components of the ITER machine, as tall as a seven-storey building and weighing in excess of 1,000 tonnes. Made of six 110-tonne cylindrical modules stacked one on top of...
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4 Sep 2023
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With contracts in place, the repair campaign has begun

Contracts were awarded this summer to the companies that will carry out the repair/refurbishment of the ITER thermal shield and vacuum vessel sectors. Teams deployed on site are already executing the first steps of the...
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4 Sep 2023
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Spare coil arriving from Japan

In August, Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and supplier Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipped a spare toroidal field coil to ITER—the very last (of nine) D-shaped coils to be supplied...
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4 Sep 2023
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Mayor Pizot, a friend and a partner

For the ITER community in France, Roger Pizot, who passed away on Sunday 23 July, was more than the long-standing mayor (1995-2020) of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, the small village in Provence where ITER is located...
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4 Sep 2023
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A changing panorama

New "bridges" spanning the main boulevard of the ITER platform, massive structures progressively donning their final attire, buildings in the last stages of civil works rising like pyramids ... thirteen years into...
SOFE 2023 at Oxford
24 Jul 2023
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Where history met the future

What a venue for a conference! The Examination Schools of the University of Oxford were built in the late 1880s to host the annual examinations of all of the university's colleges. These hallowed halls provided a...
After the hiatus
24 Jul 2023
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A time of change and challenge

Summer is for all kinds of reading—thrillers and romances, historical novels, poetry or political essays. In the fusion world, it can also be a time for catching up on what has occurred at ITER since Newsline's last...
Taking care with integrated control
24 Jul 2023
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Integrating new systems

When ITER plant systems come online, special care is taken to ensure the new systems do not interfere with those already in operation.
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10 Jul 2023
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A four-day "reverse lift"

In May 2022, the first of nine sector modules that form the tokamak torus was installed in the assembly pit. In a reverse operation last week, the same 1,350-tonne module was removed, as dimensional non-conformities...
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10 Jul 2023
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ITER represented at major fusion gathering

And they're off. Fusioneers are gathering this week in Oxford (United Kingdom) for the 30th IEEE Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE). More than 700 delegates from 26 countries—including a group of 20 from the ITER...
2023 ITER International School
10 Jul 2023
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On energetic particles

The 12th ITER International School concluded successfully in Aix-en-Provence, France, on 30 June after five days of lectures and discussions on the impact and consequences of energetic particles on fusion plasmas.
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10 Jul 2023
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DIII-D, advancing fusion science

The DIII-D National Fusion Facility has announced the end of a productive two-year experimentation campaign, with 200 days of operation and 1,600 plasma research hours .
Central solenoid module arriving
3 Jul 2023
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Third module on its way

A 110-tonne central solenoid module manufactured by General Atomics (San Diego, California) is on its way to the ITER construction site in southern France. Six modules will be stacked to form the complete central...
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3 Jul 2023
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French Science Minister "understands ITER timeline"

In the course of her work, French physicist and Minister of Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau has designed and used several kinds of cryostats. None, however, can compare with the ITER cryostat that she saw...
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3 Jul 2023
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Sector module extraction imminent

The paperwork is done. Every tool and system has been checked, both visually and with the proper instruments. A "functional briefing" has reminded everyone involved of how the operation will proceed, step by step, and...
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27 Jun 2023
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French President invited to ITER

Over the past few years, French President Emmanuel Macron has demonstrated a strong interest in ITER. In April 2018, he had asked then-ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot to accompany him on his state visit to the United...
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26 Jun 2023
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This time for ITER families and friends

Over the past twelve years, thousands of people have filed through the ITER gates on the occasion of the biannual Open Doors Days. Initiated in 2011, when construction works had just begun on the ITER platform, the...
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26 Jun 2023
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JET celebrates 40 years

The JET tokamak—training ground to multiple generations of fusion scientists and engineers—celebrated 40 years of science last week.
Infrared cameras monitor plasma-facing surfaces
26 Jun 2023
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Experts meet to improve infrared measurements for ITER

The workshop organized by the ITER Port Plugs & Diagnostics Division helped to advance the development of the infrared diagnostics that will protect ITER's plasma-facing components.