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27 Sep 2021
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Co-locating port plug assembly and testing

For about 20 of the ITER ports that house diagnostics elements, the path to installation in the tokamak passes through a Port Integration Facility on site. Side by side, the port plugs will be equipped with their tenant...
Two Japanese coils shipped together
27 Sep 2021
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Two coils in a boat

Sailing ten thousand miles alone in a ship's hold can be a very lonely experience. Fortunately for them, toroidal field coils TF2 and TF10 will be able to keep each other company all the way from Japan to the ITER site...
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20 Sep 2021
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Michel Huguet on the long chain of "fusion builders"

Some thirty years ago, the ITER project entered what is called the Engineering Design Activities, a phase which aimed at providing the engineering drawings and models for the construction of the planned tokamak. Work was...
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20 Sep 2021
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Long-term coil park

Manufactured in China under a European contract, poloidal field coil #6 (PF6) was the first magnet to be installed in the assembly pit in late April 2021. Sailing the south China Sea, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and...
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20 Sep 2021
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Safety comes first

Whether they spend their day in an office at ITER or on one of the upper floors of the Tokamak Complex, driving a vehicle or manoeuvring a crane, every person present on the ITER site is requested to share the same...
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20 Sep 2021
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EU Commissioner for Energy: "ITER is a unique project in frontier science"

Kadri Simson, European Union Commissioner for Energy, spent Friday 17 September at ITER. In the course of her visit to key site installations and during the press conference that followed, she described ITER as a prime...
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20 Sep 2021
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2nd vacuum vessel sector passes site tests

On 27 August, the ITER community celebrated the safe arrival of vacuum vessel sector #1(7)—the second of four sectors expected from the Korean Domestic Agency.
Central solenoid module delivered
13 Sep 2021
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1st delivery celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic

Standing 18 metres tall at the very heart of the ITER tokamak, the central solenoid will generate an intense magnetic field which, in turn, will induce an electrical current inside the plasma and initiate the heating...
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13 Sep 2021
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Radial beam fits just right

When describing operations inside the ITER in the assembly theatre, one is invariably tempted to call up images from the realm of science fiction. How else to convey the awe and puzzlement that every component and every...
A new chapter for COMPASS
13 Sep 2021
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Curtain call for the COMPASS tokamak

After 12 years of operation and 21,000 plasma shots, the Czech tokamak COMPASS ceased operation on 20 August 2021.
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6 Sep 2021
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US to deliver "tough" electronics to ITER

ITER, a machine that will imitate the sun, will also mimic the sun's extreme environment: intense heat, strong magnetic fields and radiation. A team at US ITER has been toughening up critical components of ITER's vacuum...
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6 Sep 2021
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The lighthouse in the pit

Like a lighthouse (without a beacon) the central column rises more than 20 metres above the floor of the assembly pit. The massive structure does not belong to the tokamak, however: once connected to an array of nine...
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6 Sep 2021
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Diagnosing the plasma in real time

To do its job well, ITER's plasma control system will need reliable real-time measurements from diagnostic systems. Engineers from the Controls Division have developed a high-performance software base, called a real-time...
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6 Sep 2021
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India's INOXCVA completes full scope

All angles, bends and turns, a complex system of cryolines produced in India will distribute the cooling power generated by the ITER cryoplant to clients throughout the installation. Four years after manufacturing was...
Before dawn
6 Sep 2021
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Eight now on site

With eight D-shaped magnet coils on site and two travelling, the project has officially passed the halfway mark in the procurement of 19 toroidal field coils.
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30 Aug 2021
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Integrated team holds 100th meeting

The "Century Meeting" of the Blanket Integrated Product Team was held from 30 June to 1 July 2021 by Skype.
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30 Aug 2021
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2nd vacuum vessel sector from Korea

One vacuum vessel sector is already positioned inside a giant sub-assembly tool, ready to be associated with two vertical coils and thermal shielding to form the first sub-assembly of the ITER tokamak. A second sits on...
Remembering Arun Srivastava
30 Aug 2021
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Arun Srivastava, former ITER Council Chair

Some very sad news reached ITER and the broader fusion community on Wednesday 18 August: Arun Srivastava, who had served as the sixth Chair of the ITER Council from January 2018 until the end of 2019, had passed away...
First central solenoid module arrives in France
30 Aug 2021
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Busy times on roads and oceans

It is a busy time for transport and deliveries. Major ITER components are presently sailing the Indian and Pacific oceans, driving on the roads near Houston, and travelling by night along the ITER Itinerary.
ITER in focus in Sofia
30 Aug 2021
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The beauty of ITER in Bulgaria's capital

From 10 to 23 August, pedestrians strolling across the "Lovers' Bridge" in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria, were given a unique opportunity to get acquainted with ITER.