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7 Mar 2022
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A fast new way to see inside the vacuum vessel

A new system, called the "in-vessel lighting system," will make it easier for ITER operators to quickly assess potential damage to the inner wall by shining visible light into the vacuum vessel and taking pictures.
Managing ITER's vast component inventory
28 Feb 2022
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An elbow joint's odyssey

A journey through the ITER warehouse system.
ASN regulatory hold points for ITER
28 Feb 2022
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The next step in ITER licensing

In January 2022, the French nuclear safety regulator ASN (Autorité de sûreté nucléaire) issued a letter in which it stated that it could not release the ITER tokamak assembly "hold point" as was foreseen to happen on 1...
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28 Feb 2022
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From table to platform

As the yellow lifting tools and devices are progressively removed from the central solenoid module on the left, the platform to the right is being equipped for the first stages of assembly.
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14 Feb 2022
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The "table" is set for the first module

The two workers on the cherry picker had spent more than one hour slowly turning the three turnbuckles attached to the straps that held the load. Millimetre by millimetre they had adjusted the straps' length so that...
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14 Feb 2022
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Where fantasy meets the future

Presenting ITER at public conferences and festivals is nothing new. But last weekend, it can be said that ITER entered new territory at the Yggdrasil Festival in Lyon.
New fusion energy record set on JET
14 Feb 2022
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JET makes history, again

The JET tokamak has achieved a first-ever sustained, high-confinement plasma using the same wall materials and fuel mix that ITER will use. The results aligned with prediction ... and this predictability is very good...
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7 Feb 2022
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Strolling along the AC/DC boulevard

Electrical power is both familiar and mysterious. In our daily lives, we rarely think of the extensive production, transport, conversion and distribution infrastructure that lies behind every switch and wall socket. In a...
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7 Feb 2022
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Starting with the heat rejection system

Commissioning of the heat rejection system is well underway, clearing the path for all "client" systems.
Configuration control, a must
7 Feb 2022
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Masters of change hold 500th meeting

The ITER Configuration Control Board held its 500th meeting earlier this month. "CCB," as it is known at ITER, is at the centre of managing any changes to the technical configuration of the structures, systems and...
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31 Jan 2022
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Next ITER International School

The 11th ITER International School will be held from 25 to 29 July 2022, hosted by the U.S. Burning Plasma Organization, University of California at San Diego, and General Atomics.
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31 Jan 2022
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ITER teams now fully in charge of platform coordination

The oil has been changed but the engine keeps humming along.
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31 Jan 2022
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"What we see is very comforting"

The European Union plays a major role in ITER. But for many in the European Parliament, the project is still an abstraction—something very large and utterly complex, founded on an arcane physics principle that offers a...
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31 Jan 2022
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Vacuum vessel sector ships from Korea

Vacuum vessel sector #8 has left Ulsan Port, Korea.
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24 Jan 2022
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Lessons learned from SPIDER, a full-size negative ion source

SPIDER finished its first test campaign in late November 2021 and is now entering an upgrade phase. During this time, the testbed will be shut down for about one year to make changes based on what was learned during the...
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24 Jan 2022
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Korea completes a third vacuum vessel sector

A third 40-degree sector of the ITER vacuum vessel has exited the Hyundai Heavy Industries production line in Ulsan, Korea.
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24 Jan 2022
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Two more to go!

In the European winding facility on site, two large poloidal field coils have already left the manufacturing line. Two others are currently advancing through the complex, multistage fabrication process that begins with...
Gravity support inclination test
17 Jan 2022
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Completion of the first vacuum vessel gravity support

The factory acceptance test on the first ITER vacuum vessel gravity support has been successfully completed at Haneul Engineering in Gunsan, Korea. Under the 8,500*-tonne plasma chamber, nine gravity supports will allow...
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17 Jan 2022
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Hail showers in ASDEX Upgrade for ITER disruption mitigation

Just before the 2021 Christmas holiday break, the team at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak successfully fired frozen deuterium pellet fragments into a plasma as part of a global effort within the fusion institutes of the ITER...
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17 Jan 2022
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Like a Meccano under the Christmas tree

Like Erector set or Meccano parts scattered beneath the tree on Christmas morning, components for the ITER tokamak cover the floor of the Assembly Hall, waiting to be assembled.