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3 May 2021
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Art around every corner

Most of us have experienced it. Turning a corner in one of the Tokamak Building galleries and looking up at the graphic pattern of embedded plates in the concrete walls, or noticing the geometrical arrangement of steel...
Ensuring seamless communication
26 Apr 2021
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Ensuring real-time distributed computing at ITER

Many of the control systems at ITER require quick response and a high degree of determinism. If commands go out late, the state of the machine may have changed in the interim, rendering actions useless—and maybe even...
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26 Apr 2021
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Award for ITER Japan's Hideo Nakajima

Hideo Nakajima, a senior engineer at ITER Japan, has received an award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME) for his contribution to the development of codes and standards for fusion facilities.
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26 Apr 2021
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First magnet in place

When it travelled the ITER Itinerary last year , or during cold tests in the onsite winding facility, poloidal field coil #6 (PF6) felt rather large and massive. Although only 10 metres in diameter—compared to 24 metres...
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26 Apr 2021
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Teams prepare ITER Games?

Arranged unexpectedly in a configuration that can only remind us of the Olympic Games , six pre-compression rings in the ITER Assembly Hall are being prepped for installation.
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19 Apr 2021
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From dizzying volume to cramped environment

There was a time when the assembly pit felt like a huge arena, with toy-like tools scattered on the floor and workers reduced to Playmobil-size figures. Progressively, over the past year, the perception has changed...
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19 Apr 2021
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UKAEA's CHIMERA set to transform fusion component testing

Construction of a unique testing machine for fusion components is underway at the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA).
Getting to know China over his career
19 Apr 2021
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A 30-year friendship with China

Some thirty years ago, HT-7 , China's first superconducting tokamak, was entering operation and experiencing some issues with its ion cyclotron resonance (ICRH) antenna. As the fusion world was already one tight-knit...
Entering the Tokamak Complex
19 Apr 2021
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Building the feeders, segment by segment

Through an opening in the Tritium Building just large enough to admit the 11-metre-long components, two magnet feeder segments were introduced this month into the lower basement of the Tokamak Complex. From there, they...
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19 Apr 2021
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Highest French distinction for former ITER Director-General

Established in 1802 by Napoléon Bonaparte, then the First Consul of the young French Republic, the French Legion of Honour (Légion d'honneur) is the highest of the French orders of merit. It is awarded to persons of...
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19 Apr 2021
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Cryostat base and lower cylinder are now one

Procured by India, the ITER cryostat is composed of four sections: the base, the lower and upper cylinders, and the top lid. Once positioned inside the assembly pit, the different sections are welded together in order to...
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19 Apr 2021
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First coil leaves production line

As long as a semi-trailer, nearly as heavy as a fully loaded Boeing 747, the first ITER ring magnet to be manufactured by Europe on site—poloidal field coil #5 (PF5)—has exited the building to await its turn for assembly...
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12 Apr 2021
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Archiving 20 gigabytes per second—and making it usable

One of the main deliverables of ITER is the data itself—and there will be a tremendous amount of it to store and analyze.
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12 Apr 2021
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High voltage, high risk

In the southern part of the construction platform, a one-hectare yard hosts some of the strangest-looking components of the entire ITER installation. Rows of tower-like cylindrical structures stand 8 metres tall; other...
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12 Apr 2021
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Virtual interaction, tangible opportunities

While the advent of Covid-19 has not stopped the relentless advancement of the ITER project, it has certainly prompted ingenuity in how ITER conducts its work. The latest example took place on 7-8 April, as industrial...
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12 Apr 2021
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Europe completes pre-compression rings

The French company CNIM (Toulon) has produced a tenth pre-compression ring for the ITER project on behalf of Fusion for Energy, the European Domestic Agency.
Vacuum vessel sector #6: first tokamak "piece"
12 Apr 2021
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First sector safely docked

It was 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday 6 April and something quite unusual happened in the ITER Assembly Hall: applause spontaneously erupted from the teams that had been at work since early afternoon. Specialists do not usually...
First cryoline spools in position
30 Mar 2021
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Out through the door, in through the roof

Cooling fluids for the machine's magnets, thermal shield and cryopumps will travel to the Tokamak Building through a set of large multi-process pipes ( cryolines ) originating in the cryoplant. On Thursday 25 March, the...
PF6 coil nears installation
30 Mar 2021
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Next in line

Of six ring-shaped coils required for the ITER tokamak, poloidal field coil #6 (PF6) is the heaviest (400 tonnes) and the second smallest, with a diameter of 10 metres.
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30 Mar 2021
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Strong base for a very heavy task

The first part of the in-pit assembly tool has been installed in the Tokamak pit. When complete, the tool will stand more than 20 metres high and branch out in nine directions to support the sectors of the vacuum chamber...