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11 May 2020
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Feel the energy

The ITER machine is not assembled yet and First Plasma is still more than five years away, but an intense flux of energy is already palpable inside the tokamak pit.
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11 May 2020
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An investment in the future

Ever since the Monaco-ITER postdoctoral fellowship program was launched in 2008, His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco has met with the five young scientists that are selected every two years to study research...
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4 May 2020
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ITER's reliance on metrology, the science of measurement

Over the next four years, ITER components arriving from hundreds of factories on three continents will have to come together very precisely—to submillimetre accuracy, in some cases. To achieve this level of precision, an...
Imaging bolometer views
4 May 2020
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Scientist Fellows in action

Important contributions are being made to ITER diagnostics by the 22 ITER Scientist Fellows who are currently dedicating a portion of their time to the research and development needs of the Port Plugs & Diagnostics...
ITER's assembly theatre
4 May 2020
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Preparing for a momentous event

A large circular opening in the foreground where the ITER machine will be assembled piece by piece; a large circular structure in the background—the first piece to be inserted. The lowering of the cryostat base this...
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28 Apr 2020
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Korea completes first vacuum vessel sector

Just over a decade ago, the ITER Organization completed the build-to-print design of the ITER vacuum vessel—a 5,000-tonne steel chamber that would house the world's first reactor-scale fusion plasma. This month...
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28 Apr 2020
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Japan delivers D-shaped coil

What makes a component unique, beyond its size and weight, is the sum of work and the sophistication of the technologies that go into its fabrication. In this respect, the ITER D-shaped toroidal field coils are in a...
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28 Apr 2020
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From Russia by road

Six trucks filled with electrotechnical equipment for the ITER installation have arrived from the Efremov Institute in Russia.
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20 Apr 2020
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The week the workshop emptied

For a few minutes, the Cryostat Workshop resounded with Beethoven's "Ode to Joy." It was a strange moment, both solemn and poignant. Before long, the self-propelled trailer transporting the base section of the ITER...
Crossing the final roundabout
20 Apr 2020
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First D-shaped coil delivered

For close to ten years we have watched it slowly come to life. We have witnessed the manufacturing of the niobium-tin strands , the cabling and jacketing of conductor, the machining of radial plates, the i nsertion into...
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20 Apr 2020
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Last steps for poloidal field coil #5

In a spacious manufacturing facility on site, Europe's first production poloidal field coil has been transferred to the final assembly station. Contractors used a 400-tonne gantry crane to lift the coil on 11 April.
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20 Apr 2020
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A "landmark day" celebrated in Korea

A ceremony was held today, 20 April, in Ulsan, South Korea, to mark the completion of the first ITER vacuum vessel sector. This remarkable piece of tokamak engineering has been more than 10 years in the making.
In-vessel cabling pathways
9 Apr 2020
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What it takes to wire up a fusion reactor

While the challenges of keeping cables operational in harsh environments such as jet engines and nuclear fission reactors have been understood for a long time, protecting cables inside fusion reactors is a different...
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9 Apr 2020
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Off goes the lid

In the summer of 2017, a circular platform was installed inside of the large steel-and-concrete cylinder of the Tokamak pit. The 200-tonne structure was meant to protect the workers active in the lower levels while...
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9 Apr 2020
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Two coils on their way

For the past five years, "highly exceptional loads" (HEL) have been successfully travelling along the ITER Itinerary to be delivered to the ITER site. As the project now enters machine assembly phase, a new category of...
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9 Apr 2020
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Ready for the big lifts

This new video in our "ITER NOW" series provides an insider's view of the recent load tests performed as the ITER Organization prepares for the machine assembly phase. Join ITER Construction manager Duco Jansen on the...
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30 Mar 2020
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Far more than a fancy ashtray

It has been likened to the filter of a swimming pool or an oversized ashtray. It has been called alien in shape and hellish in its affinity for heat. But whatever the analogy, the ITER divertor is an impressive product...
Load tests on the bridge crane
30 Mar 2020
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The way to assembly is open

Passing an ITER Council milestone is always an achievement. Passing this milestone at this moment is much more than that: it is a demonstration that, despite the constraints imposed by the public health context , the...
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23 Mar 2020
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A third magnet ready for transport to ITER

Three ITER magnets are now in transit to ITER from different points on the globe—two toroidal field magnets and one poloidal field coil. In terms of component weight, without counting packaging and transport frames, they...
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23 Mar 2020
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Europe's coil soon to hit the road

It's big, it's heavy, it's precious and it's highly symbolic: the toroidal field coil that was unloaded at Marseille industrial harbour on 17 March is the most massive, most sophisticated ITER component to arrive in...