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23 Mar 2020
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Entering the final sequence

The smallest of ITER's poloidal field coils is entering the final sequence in a long series of activities that transform cable-in-conduit superconductor into a completed magnet ready for shipment to ITER.
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23 Mar 2020
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Adjusting to maintain progress

COVID-19 needs no introduction. But for a 35-country collaboration like ITER, the dramatic worldwide spread of the virus has introduced an entirely new set of challenges for international project management. Whether the...
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23 Mar 2020
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A roadmap to fusion energy

Hundreds of scientists across the United States—representing a broad range of national labs, universities, and private ventures—have collaborated to produce A Community Plan for Fusion Energy and Discovery Plasma...
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9 Mar 2020
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Diagnostics for maintaining the power balance

One hundred bolometer sensors, with a total of around 500 lines of sight, will be strategically placed around the ITER Tokamak to continually measure the total radiation and radiation profiles, and to provide the plasma...
Japan and Euratom reaffirm Broader Approach collaboration
9 Mar 2020
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An even Broader Approach

On 2 March, the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and the Japanese government signed a joint declaration for the second phase of the Broader Approach activities, agreeing on further cooperation on research and...
Power flux handling workshop at KAIST
9 Mar 2020
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Open for abstracts

The next ITER International School will be held from 20 to 24 July 2020 in France. Registration and abstract submission opens today.
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9 Mar 2020
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More than meets the eye

Eight months separate these two satellite-like images of the ITER site.
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9 Mar 2020
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Europe completes D-shaped magnet

The first of 10 toroidal field coils to be procured by ITER's European Domestic Agency, Fusion for Energy, is ready for shipment. This is the first deliverable of a decade-long program involving more than 700 people and...
Testing a unique operation
2 Mar 2020
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Upending the steel cradle

Load handling will play an essential role in the assembly of the ITER tokamak. Very large, very heavy, very delicate and very costly components will need to be lifted, transported and manoeuvred without damage, often...
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2 Mar 2020
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A drone survey amidst the "giboulées"

It is March in Provence and with the last month of winter comes a peculiar weather pattern that the French call « giboulées »—alternating showers and sunshine, cold spells sometimes accompanied with snow, and days that...
Sans Titre" among M30 bolts
2 Mar 2020
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A humble connector of art and science

Sometimes a bolt is just a bolt. Sometimes it is more. On the morning of 13 November 2019, fresh from celebrating the completion of civil works on the Tokamak Building, ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot could be seen...
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2 Mar 2020
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First coil heads to sea

ITER's first toroidal field coil is about to embark on a month-long voyage from the port of Kobe, Japan, to Fos-sur-Mer, France. Component and packaging together weigh nearly 500 tonnes.
A lot of elbow grease
24 Feb 2020
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As clean as a freshly minted coin

Before it is encased in its protective cocoon and moved to temporary storage, the cryostat upper cylinder must be cleaned. The operation is both low-tech and essential: all the dust specks, metal particles, and traces of...
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24 Feb 2020
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Alain Bécoulet, Head of Engineering

When Alain Bécoulet embraced plasma physics back in the mid-1980s as a student at France's prestigious École Normale Supérieure, he did it for two reasons: one was the intellectual challenge; the other was the potential...
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24 Feb 2020
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Like dancers in a vertical ballet

Of all the movements of workers and equipment in the Assembly Hall, these are the most gracious...
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24 Feb 2020
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New steady state analysis

Recent research shows it should be possible to reach steady-state fusion production in ITER with the baseline mix of heating and current drive systems, in particular by upgrading the levels of power delivered to the...
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17 Feb 2020
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Grand opening soon

Picture a giant soup plate, 30 metres in diameter, slowing descending into a deep concrete cylinder. Track the near imperceptible movement of the double overhead bridge crane, as it moves a few millimetres at a time to...
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17 Feb 2020
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Testing the load path

Teams are preparing now for the commissioning and dynamic load tests that will be carried out in the coming weeks on the assembly bridge cranes. The load tests, which aim to demonstrate the structural integrity of the...
17 Feb 2020
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Physicist John Wesson

The theoretical physicist, author of a major reference book on magnetic confinement fusion in tokamaks, was known to many members of the ITER community.
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17 Feb 2020
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ITER Scientist Fellows are at the cutting edge

In the area of cutting-edge research—and particularly the sophisticated modelling of plasmas—the project is benefitting from the assistance of world-renowned experts through the ITER Scientist Fellow Network program. Now...