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19 Nov 2020
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Assembly moves ahead

The Twenty-Seventh Meeting of the ITER Council took place by videoconference on 18 and 19 November 2020, chaired by LUO Delong from China. Representatives of the seven ITER Members evaluated project progress and...
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16 Nov 2020
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Translating JET into ITER

With an inner wall made of beryllium and tungsten, the European tokamak JET is the only tokamak in the world to share the same material environment as ITER. When it begins a new experimental campaign with ITER fuels in...
Evolution of the ITER site
16 Nov 2020
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Major progress you don't see from the air

There was a time when aerial pictures of the ITER worksite taken at six-month intervals showed spectacular change. Buildings and structures sprouted from previously vacant lots, new levels were added to existing...
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16 Nov 2020
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Pushing manufacturing to the limit

A unique set of challenges calls for a unique set of manufacturing approaches. The ITER Organization is partnering with industry to demonstrate the advanced manufacturing techniques required for ITER's first line of...
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16 Nov 2020
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Todd Evans, a pioneer in three-dimensional magnetic fields

The fusion community is without one of its most creative members with the passing away of Todd Evans last month. Todd dedicated most of his career to furthering the theoretical and experimental understanding and...
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2 Nov 2020
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MAST Upgrade turns on the switch

Plasma is back inside the spherical chamber of the United Kingdom's MAST Upgrade tokamak after a seven-year campaign to upgrade the device. With its renewed capabilities, MAST Upgrade will serve as an important test...
Sector lifting tool cleared for operation
2 Nov 2020
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How to (carefully) transfer ITER's heaviest components

Functional tests on the "sector lifting tool" have demonstrated that the tool's controller and actuators are ready to implement operator commands during the delicate lifting operations of vacuum vessel sectors, toroidal...
Supporting the ITER Research Plan
2 Nov 2020
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How you can support the ITER Research Plan

In describing the R&D program of the ITER device, the ITER Research Plan also identifies the top R&D issues requiring consolidation or refinement. In the interest of making these R&D support needs more widely accessible...
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2 Nov 2020
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Full circle

In the ITER Assembly Hall, the circle of the lower cryostat thermal shield is now complete. A lot of work remains to be done, however, before the silver-plated component is inserted into the assembly pit in about one...
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2 Nov 2020
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Filling the gap

Inside the tokamak assembly pit, two small machines are entrusted with a formidable task: faultlessly and seamlessly welding the first two sections of the cryostat. Following the manual welding of feeder stubs and...
Exploring augmented reality
26 Oct 2020
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Assessing the future work environment

As part of their collaboration within the Site Support Agreement*, ITER and its neighbour CEA are developing a novel approach to explore, analyze and assess the work environment in the port cells dedicated to the...
A different kind of boss
26 Oct 2020
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First welding on the vacuum vessel

Beginning in 2035, ITER will open a window into "burning plasmas"—a state of matter that exists in the core of stars only. Observing, assessing and monitoring this yet unexplored territory of physics will require a vast...
TAC2 machining workshop
26 Oct 2020
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Machining workshop opens on site

Construction of an on-site machining workshop began in December 2019 and was completed on schedule in September 2020.
26 Oct 2020
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Power is ready for the prototype injector

The European Domestic Agency has carried out successful site acceptance tests at the ITER Neutral Beam Test Facility on power supply equipment installed overhead in the spectacular high voltage deck—a Faraday cage box...
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20 Oct 2020
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First components arrive on site

ITER has received the first shipments of mineral-insulated conductor for ITER's in-vessel coils. The first lengths are destined for winding and bending trials as well as for the production of the first vertical stability...
Divertor power flux: 2D vs. 3D modelling
20 Oct 2020
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ITER Scientist Fellows make progress

New research results open a path to an integrated solution for optimizing the control of stationary and transient power fluxes on ITER.
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20 Oct 2020
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Canada returns to the table

Canada, one of the early participants in ITER, is back in the project. On Thursday 15 October, Bernard Bigot, on behalf of the ITER Organization, and Assistant Deputy Minister Dan Costello, on behalf of the Canadian...
Monitoring the fill-up operation
20 Oct 2020
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A massive fill-up

When the ITER tokamak begins producing burning plasmas and auxiliary systems are operating at full capacity, the amount of heat to be removed from the installation will be in the range of 1100 MW. The extraction and...
Virtual European Fusion Teacher Day
20 Oct 2020
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Teaching teachers about fusion

The possibility to visit three fusion facilities, all in one afternoon. Welcome to the new virtual world! More than 300 science teachers recently seized the opportunity and joined the first European Fusion Teacher Day...
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20 Oct 2020
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The ultimate heat barrier

In the Assembly Hall environment, all yellowish hues and dull-grey structures, a strange component shines like a freshly polished mirror. Lying horizontal, it looks like a giant's tiara; when upended to the vertical...