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15 Feb 2021
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Multi-lane thruways into the machine

The ITER superconducting coils thrive on a simple diet of electrical power and cooling fluids. The industrial installation on site is scaled to provide both, but the challenge is in the delivery. How do you "feed" 10,000...
Top lid sections staged for assembly
15 Feb 2021
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Top lid enters the stage

In this vast workshop over the past five years, the different sections of the ITER cryostat have been assembled and welded under India's responsibility. The base section, followed by the lower and upper cylinders, have...
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15 Feb 2021
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Manufacturing kicks off in Europe

For one of the most demanding technological components of the ITER machine—the first wall of the blanket—the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy made the decision early on to involve different suppliers in a...
Explore ITER with the interactive site map
15 Feb 2021
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Fly over and peek inside

A new tool takes us on a tour of the ITER worksite from the air, identifying the many buildings and technical areas that make up the scientific installation.
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8 Feb 2021
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Under scrutinizing eyes

While challenging to build, a system that provides 2D and 3D images of the ITER in-vessel components hours after a plasma shot makes operating fusion devices safer and easier.
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8 Feb 2021
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Marvels of the subterranean world

The amount of power that must be delivered to the transformers, rectifiers, converters and other exotic devices that will feed DC current to the magnets and other "ITER specific" systems is equivalent to the production...
Dimensional checks on inner vertical target prototype
8 Feb 2021
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Qualification milestone in Europe

A qualification program is underway in Europe to ensure the performance and manufacturability of the divertor inner vertical target—a plasma-facing component located at the intersection of magnetic field lines at the...
Central solenoid modules in fabrication
1 Feb 2021
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First module gets clean bill of health

After enduring a battery of rigorous tests, the first of seven superconducting magnet modules that will make up the beating heart of the ITER international fusion reactor has earned a clean bill of health.
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1 Feb 2021
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Ring coil placed in storage

A long journey from China, followed by a month-long cold bath and now the perspective of a six-week rest in storage—this is what life has been like, so far, for poloidal field coil #6.
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1 Feb 2021
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50th mammoth convoy in 6 years

On a cold January morning six years ago, the first in a long series of "Highly Exceptional Loads" made its way through the ITER gates. Procured by the US and manufactured in Korea, the 90-tonne high-voltage transformer...
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25 Jan 2021
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"Outside and beyond anything"

In an empty plot on the ITER platform, preparatory works have started for the construction of two new buildings. From the outside, they will look like ordinary metal-frame structures, clad in ITER's signature mirror-like...
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25 Jan 2021
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Anticipation and flexibility

It is a subterranean world of scaffolding and supports, piping and cables, concrete and embedded plates. To the untrained eye, the activity underway in the basement of the Tokamak Complex can seem overwhelming. But...
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25 Jan 2021
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Keeping an eye on the hot (double) pancake

An ITER ring-shaped coil begins its existence as cable-in-conduit conductor, wound into "double pancakes" that are eventually stacked one upon the other to form the winding pack at the core of the finalized coil. At one...
Installation du bouclier thermique inférieur
18 Jan 2021
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A "strong back" for a fragile component

The lower cryostat thermal shield is a large silver-plated component, circular in shape and five metres tall, which fits inside the depression in the cryostat base to form a heat barrier to protect the superconducting...
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18 Jan 2021
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B4C ceramic bricks prove their worth

A number of materials can effectively shield diagnostic equipment from the neutron flux coming from the plasma. To find the best one, the diagnostics team at ITER had to match efficacy with a number of other requirements...
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18 Jan 2021
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The cryostat top lid, batch after batch

Batch after batch, the elements for the top lid of the ITER cryostat keep arriving from India. As of today, 7 out of the 12 required segments have been delivered. The lid is a complex component that integrates a number...
A very detailed and colorful computer-generated drawing of the 15 major ITER plant systems that will help the machine operate.
11 Jan 2021
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Last major assembly contract signed

One year after finalizing two major machine assembly contracts, the ITER Organization has chosen the contractors who will carry out assembly and installation activities inside of the Tokamak Complex.
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11 Jan 2021
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The towering importance of data

The most important product of ITER is data, which will be used to produce the information needed to build models for DEMO and commercial reactors—and much more.
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11 Jan 2021
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In my arms!

In late November, one part of the "shell" that encloses every vacuum vessel sector—a right-hand outboard thermal shield panel— had been mounted on a giant pre-assembly tool in the Assembly Hall.
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11 Jan 2021
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The UK will remain part of ITER

"It was a great Christmas present," says Ian Chapman, head of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. Many in the ITER community would agree. The Brexit negotiations of recent years have included a high-stakes...