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19 Sep 2022
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Open Doors for ITER families

In a first at ITER, the gates of the monumental worksite opened on Saturday 17 September for a family-only Open Doors Day event, reserved for the families of staff and contractors employed on site by the ITER...
Russia to supply gyrotron sets
19 Sep 2022
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Russia ships four gyrotron sets

Twenty-four electromagnetic wave generators called gyrotrons are at the heart of e lectron cyclotron resonance heating—the system on ITER that will initiate each plasma shot, contribute heating power to the plasma, and...
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19 Sep 2022
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Science to resume at Wendelstein 7-X

Improved equipment on Wendelstein 7-X will permit the stellarator device to achieve new scientific heights in a campaign planned to begin this autumn.
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12 Sep 2022
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On operation scenarios and control

The 11th ITER International School concluded successfully in San Diego, USA, on 29 July after five days of lectures and discussions on the development of tokamak operation scenarios and how to control them.
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12 Sep 2022
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The visible and the barely noticeable

Progress in ITER can be highly visible—like the spectacular addition of the first bridge spanning the construction platform's main boulevard (see article in this issue)—or nearly unnoticeable, like the final alignment of...
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12 Sep 2022
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A bridge over the busy boulevard

From the buildings where they originate, the networks delivering cooling fluids and DC current to the ITER tokamak will be supported by massive elevated steel structures referred to as "bridges," although they are more...
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12 Sep 2022
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ITER is part of his legacy

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, who passed away on 30 August 2022 at age 91, was instrumental in the decision to launch the international collaboration in fusion that would soon be known as "ITER." Much younger than his...
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12 Sep 2022
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The Games return

On a glorious Saturday in September, 500 people turned out to take part in the ITER Games, which were back after a three-year hiatus.
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12 Sep 2022
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Fusion and The Queen

The 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II spanned a time of incredible change and transformation in the world, and not the least in technology and the sciences. Twice, her official duties led her to visit laboratories that...
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25 Jul 2022
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Second IAEA Technical Meeting held at ITER

Disruptions of tokamak plasmas (fast events leading to the complete loss of thermal and magnetic energy on millisecond timescales) can pose significant risks to the lifetime of components in large-scale devices such as...
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25 Jul 2022
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Distinguished visitors from Korea

Participants to the Europe-Korea Conference on Science and Technology (EKC) in Marseille took an afternoon off, last week, to pay a visit to the ITER site. The 120-person-strong group was headed by Korea's Vice-Minister...
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25 Jul 2022
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In the slow cooker

The thermostat is set at 140 °C and the timer on 72 hours. But contrary to the roasting of a Thanksgiving Turkey, the "curing" of the resin inside a poloidal field coil cannot be left unattended. More like the cooking of...
Historic visit to Harwell, 1956
25 Jul 2022
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"It just isn't like any other kind of research..."

On 21 April 1956, a fleet of large black limousines travelled in convoy from London to Harwell, just south of Oxford, to make an extraordinary and historic visit to the UK's Atomic Energy Research Establishment, founded...
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18 Jul 2022
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Preparing ~100 System Concepts of Operation

System Concepts of Operation (ConOps) documents are used at ITER—and at other science and engineering projects—to provide information on the operation and use of the systems, focusing on modes of operation, operational...
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18 Jul 2022
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A daunting task for a young engineer

Like so many visitors before him, a youthful-looking, middle-aged Korean man posed for a picture a few weeks ago at the foot of one of the 22-metre-tall sector sub-assembly tools (SSAT) in the ITER Assembly Hall...
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11 Jul 2022
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Walking through issues and achievements

The ITER worksite covers 42 hectares, comprises 39 buildings, and accommodates a myriad of different interconnected and interdependent activities. As the project progresses and its complexity increases, the need for...
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11 Jul 2022
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Understanding current flow during plasma disruptions

Scientists from the COMPASS tokamak at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague and the ITER Organization have performed a set of experiments to improve the understanding of plasma disruptions. This joint effort has...
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11 Jul 2022
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A different shade of grey

With the exception of the poloidal field coil winding facility, operated by the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy, and of the Cryostat Workshop, where India assembled and welded the 54 segments of the ITER...
Commit to Deliver award ceremony
27 Jun 2022
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ITER celebrates important milestones

On 16 June 2022, the ITER amphitheatre was packed with life again after two years of silence, part of a new project culture initiative called "Commit to Deliver."
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27 Jun 2022
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A full-scale mockup for dress rehearsals

Every port in the ITER vacuum vessel has a corresponding port cell in the Tokamak Building. These corridor-like spaces allow heating and fuelling pipes, electricity cables, diagnostic lines and maintenance systems to...