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18 Jun 2020
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ITER Council meets virtually

The Twenty-Sixth Meeting of the ITER Council convened on 17-18 June to assess the latest progress reports and performance metrics of the ITER Project, including preliminary assessments of the impacts of the COVID-19...
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15 Jun 2020
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How different gas species reach the plasma

The Chinese Domestic Agency has delivered the first part of the gas injection system, a series of pipes that transports all gases into the Tokamak Building from the tritium plant.
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15 Jun 2020
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The heaviest and widest load to date

Over the past five and a half years, dozens of heavy ITER components have been unloaded at Marseille industrial harbour to be transported along the ITER Itinerary as "highly exceptional loads" to the ITER site. The...
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15 Jun 2020
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It's written on the wall

The message is one of collective pride. "We have delivered" reads the large banner that is now affixed to the north wall of the Tokamak Building. Constructing this monumental edifice, whose shape and cladding are...
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8 Jun 2020
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Finding your way

The ITER platform has all the attributes of a small town . It has landmark buildings, winding roads and large avenues, traffic lights and stop signs. It is a bustling world of people and vehicles, of projects spanning...
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8 Jun 2020
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3D plus time

ITER construction planners and coordinators are using 4D planning methods to prepare for activities performed on critical machine components in the congested environment of the ITER Assembly Hall.
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8 Jun 2020
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Advancing the ITER interlock system

On 6 March 2020, the Korean company KEPCO Engineering & Construction completed manufacture of the first set of cubicles that constitute the ITER central interlock system—the control system designed for machine protection...
TF9 coil, recently delivered
2 Jun 2020
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Finishing touches on site

Between the time a toroidal field coil is delivered to ITER and the moment it is ready to enter the pre-assembly process, certain tasks must be performed: the welds in the helium piping need to be leak-tested and...
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2 Jun 2020
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"A moment that will live in our memories"

In the closing scene of the 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind , an alien spaceship hovers above an anxious and awestruck crowd of scientists and engineers. The ship looks like a giant soup bowl, with lights...
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2 Jun 2020
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As dry as He can get

Before it gets processed in the cold boxes of the ITER cryoplant, gaseous helium need to be perfectly dry—and this means removing every single water molecule that it might contain.
Prototype transmission lines
2 Jun 2020
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Design phase ends

US ITER is ready to start manufacturing high-power microwave transmission lines for the electron cyclotron resonance heating system.
Gyrotron acceptance tests in Russia
2 Jun 2020
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Russia completes four

Gyrotrons (from the Greek "gyro" (circle) and "tron" (abstracted from electron) are the energy-generating devices of the electron cyclotron resonance heating system. Russia will supply eight of these devices in total, or...
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2 Jun 2020
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Six packed and stacked

In a factory not far from ITER, French equipment manufacturer CNIM (Toulon) is working under a contract with Europe's Fusion for Energy to manufacture a set of nine composite rings. These high-tech components—with...
Welding in cramped spaces
18 May 2020
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Another day, another spool

Having wedged his body and equipment into the cramped space between the ceiling and the massive pipe, a worker is busy welding two cryolines spools. A few metres below, others are adjusting the length of the inner pipes...
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18 May 2020
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Bearings unveiled

The construction teams are in the last stages of preparing the tokamak pit for the first major operation of ITER machine assembly: the lowering of the cryostat base onto supports in the tokamak pit. Around the concrete...
Test blanket modules require large backend systems
18 May 2020
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Perfecting tritium breeding for DEMO and beyond

While ITER will never breed tritium for its own consumption, it will test breeding blanket concepts—the tools and techniques that designers of future DEMO reactors will need to achieve tritium self-sufficiency.
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11 May 2020
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Japan and Europe complete the assembly of JT-60SA

The JT-60SA fusion experiment in Naka, Japan, is designed to explore advanced plasma physics in support of the operation of ITER and next-phase devices. After seven years of assembly, the project—financed and executed...
Thermal shield panel passes tests
11 May 2020
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Thermal shield milestone in Korea

Six years after the start of fabrication, Korean contractor SFA has completed the last 40° sector of vacuum vessel thermal shield. The stainless steel panels, covered with a 5- to 10-micrometre-thick layer of silver, are...
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11 May 2020
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On their way from Hefei

The many elements of the magnet feeder system are arriving on site in carefully coordinated sequences aligned with global machine assembly needs. Last month, two large components—in-cryostat feeders that must be...
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11 May 2020
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Ken Tomabechi, a leading figure in fusion

The ITER Organization has learned that Ken Tomabechi, a well-known member of the international fusion community, passed away at 91 years of age on 24 April 2020.