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10 Jan 2022
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12 months saved on number two

Whatever their size or position, the role of the ITER poloidal field coils is to shape and stabilize the plasma inside the vacuum vessel. However, as the plasma is not vertically symmetrical, the strength of the magnetic...
Divertor dome prototype cleared for shipment
10 Jan 2022
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Russia delivers a full-scale prototype

A multiyear qualification program in Russia has concluded with the successful manufacturing and testing of a full-scale divertor dome prototype at the Efremov Institute in Saint Petersburg—one of the main suppliers of...
Adjustments, deep in the pit
10 Jan 2022
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Adjusting a correction coil's position

Compared to the massive ITER magnets that weigh up to 400 tonnes, the machine's correction coils are quite lightweight: at 4.5 tonnes, they are the smallest of the superconducting magnetic system. Distributed around the...
Passage en position verticale
13 Dec 2021
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650 tonnes upended in mid-air

The upending of a vacuum vessel sector is one of the most spectacular of all pre-assembly operations. Not only is it a challenge to lift an extremely heavy and delicate load, but it also requires utmost precision to...
ITER Stories podcast launches
13 Dec 2021
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The ITER world in a podcast

What is the best way to understand a complex, revolutionary and futuristic technology that has challenged, confounded, and inspired the human mind and spirit for generations? By listening to the people that are at the...
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13 Dec 2021
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Moon sets over ITER

Eric Boidard, an ENGAGE employee who began working on the ITER Project in July 2020, is a man of patience. A photography enthusiast, he had to wait quite a long time for the rare conjunction of "the setting moon and the...
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6 Dec 2021
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Racing towards a sustainable future

He might have retired from the active life of a racing driver, but Nico Rosberg—Formula 1 World Champion in 2016—has chosen not to hang up his hat. His new ambition is to contribute to an environmentally sustainable...
Second sector enters sub-assembly sequence
6 Dec 2021
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Another day, another sector

"Construction work packages," which detail the succession of individual tasks to be performed for each and every ITER assembly activity, read like a preflight check list: Upper counterweight? Installed. Lashing lines...
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6 Dec 2021
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Russia ships auxiliary heating equipment

The energy-generating devices of ITER's electron cyclotron heating system—gyrotrons—require a number of auxiliary systems such as water cooling equipment, cryocoolers and microwave-beam forming systems. A first batch of...
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6 Dec 2021
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New mayor observes ITER Christmas tradition

Every year since the ITER Organization moved into its Headquarters building in November 2012, the tradition has been observed. A few weeks before Christmas, the mayor of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, where the organization is...
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29 Nov 2021
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Seeking the next group of Monaco-ITER Fellows

Recruitment opens for the next Monaco-ITER Postdoctoral Fellowship campaign on 17 January 2022. If your PhD was awarded after 1 January 2019—or you are about to obtain one—and you are interested in participating in one...
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29 Nov 2021
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Venet's "arcs" are as heavy as ITER coils

A "conceptual artist" among the most prominent on the art scene today, Bernar Venet is not impressed by massive towering steel structures like those in the ITER Assembly Hall. Creating massive towering steel structures...
First European vacuum vessel sector: making progress
29 Nov 2021
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Final activities on Europe's first sector

The first vacuum vessel sector produced in Europe will arrive at ITER next year.
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29 Nov 2021
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First steps toward commissioning

Every week since the beginning of November, a tube trailer filled with approximately 4,600 cubic metres (750 kg) of compressed gaseous helium delivers its load to the ITER cryoplant. At a later stage, the deliveries will...
Saving time through lessons learned
22 Nov 2021
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Lessons learned reduce work time by half

In life as in the assembly of the ITER machine, "lessons learned" are what makes progress possible. Gains in wisdom, time, skill, investment can be incremental; they can also be spectacular. The ongoing preparation works...
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22 Nov 2021
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The night shift

The ITER worksite hardly ever sleeps . When employees leave their offices and head home, the night shift begins for dozens of workers and specialists of all trades.
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22 Nov 2021
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Sculptor Jean-Paul Philippe presents his "monument to fusion"

Just back from a trip to the Italian village of Asciano, where he oversaw the selection of stone for Résonances, French sculptor Jean-Paul Philippe was at ITER this week to present a small-scale model of his creation.
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22 Nov 2021
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29th ITER Council: Components arriving, assembly progressing

The ITER Council convened for its Twenty-Ninth Meeting on 17 and 18 November 2021—the fourth consecutive meeting held virtually due to the global pandemic. On the agenda was a thorough review of progress reports and...
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15 Nov 2021
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Fusion and climate change: a conversation begins

For the past six years, beginning with the famous COP21 in Paris, ITER and the global fusion community have fought for a seat at the table in climate change discussions. Year after year, the best-laid plans have been...
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15 Nov 2021
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A most daunting task

It may be one of the most spectacular Christmas presents ITER will receive this year: the first building block of the most complex plasma chamber ever conceived.