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TF9 positioned for sector assembly
2 May 2022
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First European coil in tooling

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25 Apr 2022
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"The building works required for First Plasma are 85% complete"

As the European Domestic Agency Program Manager for Buildings, Site Infrastructure and Power Supplies, Laurent Schmieder has been in charge of the construction of the ITER scientific facility since 2009. From a flat and...
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25 Apr 2022
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OPEC Secretary General: "I am convinced the world needs ITER"

On Thursday 21 April, the ITER Organization was honoured to welcome the Secretary General of OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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11 Apr 2022
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An ever-changing landscape

The view from the gangway, 55 metres above the floor of the Assembly Hall, is an ever-changing landscape. The 6,000-square-metre staging area accommodates only two permanent features: the twin sector sub-assembly tools...
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11 Apr 2022
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The scaffolding that makes every task possible

Imagine you have a massive LEGO kit with 1,600 different types of references and you need to build hundreds of one-of-a-kind structures while facing challenging deadlines. Oh, and the kit weighs more than 1,500 tonnes...
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11 Apr 2022
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Captive components require a unique approach

Some parts of diagnostic systems need to be installed well before the systems are completely designed, creating a challenge in planning.
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4 Apr 2022
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EAST demonstrates 1000-second steady-state plasma

China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) has made an important advance by achieving stable 1056-second steady-state high-temperature plasma operation, setting a record for long-pulse operation on the...
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4 Apr 2022
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Welcoming a third sector from Korea

Fusion is about harnessing Nature's most powerful energy source: the fabulous forces that are liberated when two light atoms merge into a heavier one. The challenge, which ITER is designed to overcome, is immense and the...
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4 Apr 2022
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Smallest poloidal field coil ready for shipment

The smallest of ITER's six ring-shaped poloidal field coils has passed all factory acceptance tests in Russia. The next step is shipment to the ITER site.
4 Apr 2022
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Scientists and cloud computing push the boundaries of ITER plasma disruption simulations

Scientists from the ITER Organization and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics have performed the first realistic three-dimensional simulations of ITER plasma disruptions with cloud computing support in...
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4 Apr 2022
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The changing of the guard

It is a bit after 1:00 p.m. in the vast ITER Cleaning Facility and second-shift workers from the CNPE consortium are assembled for their daily briefing.
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28 Mar 2022
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"Today I saw the possibility of world peace"

"We cannot 'eliminate our way' to net zero. We have to innovate, not eliminate our way to carbon neutrality." With this observation, United States Senator Joe Manchin set the stage for a candid, thoughtful conversation...
White House discusses updated fusion strategy
28 Mar 2022
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US launches "bold decadal vision" for fusion energy

"Moonshot." "Bold vision." "Game-changing innovation." "The race is on." Such was the vocabulary, and the mood, of the White House Fusion Summit hosted by the US Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the...
ITER cryostat completion: one-team spirit
28 Mar 2022
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An exceptional, yearslong industrial adventure

It's a long way from Hazira, on the northwestern coast of India, to the ITER construction site in southern France. And it's also a long way from the first segment of the cryostat delivered in December 2015 to the...
21 Mar 2022
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ITER to open new postdoctoral opportunities

Beginning April 2022, the ITER Organization will begin recruiting junior experimental or theoretical physicists and/or engineers for targeted projects.
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21 Mar 2022
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Directly from producer to consumer

When fully operational, ITER will be like a large living being with fluids rushing through kilometres of veins and arteries to organs located throughout the installation. By way of pumps, valves and compressors, powerful...
Wedge pads ready for module lift
21 Mar 2022
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Designed for a strong embrace

Contrary to most components, the 110-tonne central solenoid modules cannot be equipped with lifting rings—drilling into the module is impossible and there is no space to place the attachments. As a consequence, US ITER...
Cryostat top lid welding underway
14 Mar 2022
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Last checks before wrapping

On 10 December 2015, a convoy transporting three large steel pieces passed the gates of the ITER installation. Shaped like so many slices of pie, the 50-tonne, 60-degree "segments" were the first elements of the ITER...
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14 Mar 2022
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From ship to barge, directly

Shipped from industrial facilities located on three continents, the largest and heaviest ITER components are unloaded on dedicated heavy-load quays at Marseille industrial harbour Fos-sur-Mer. The operation consists in...
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7 Mar 2022
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Making ends meet

The one-million-component ITER machine is far more complex than a space probe, a deep-sea submarine or a Mars rover. In order to fulfil its operational objectives it relies on the optimal performance of innumerable...