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23 Jul 2019
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Heavyweight champion

The Assembly Hall, with its two giant tools towering 20 metres above ground, is one of the most spectacular locations on the ITER site. When a dummy load weighing as much as a fully loaded 747 is slowly upended...
How to accelerate fusion?
23 Jul 2019
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How to go fast enough to make a difference

Last month in New York, the Stellar Energy Foundation and the Fusion Industry Association co-hosted an invitation-only workshop: "Roadmap to the Fusion Energy Economy." The Simons Foundation provided the Flatiron...
Tour of the finalized cryostat base
23 Jul 2019
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Cryostat 60% complete

When a seafaring vessel is launched, naval tradition requires that a bottle be broken on its hull to invite good luck. Although the ITER cryostat will never take to the sea, it is indeed a vessel—and a most spectacular...
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23 Jul 2019
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ITER remembers IAEA chief Yukiya Amano

The ITER Organization has learned with sadness that the three-term Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, has passed away.
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15 Jul 2019
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Fusion propulsion: exploring new frontiers
15 Jul 2019
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Have fusion, will travel

The idea of propelling rockets and spaceships using the power of the atom is nothing new: the Manhattan Project in the mid-1940s as well as countless endeavours by NASA in the following decades all explored the...
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15 Jul 2019
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End of story?

Thirty years ago, two electrochemists at the University of Utah, Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons, created a sensation when they claimed they had achieved fusion at room temperature in a tabletop experiment.
Feeder assembly zones
15 Jul 2019
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Wave of deliveries ahead

Several batches of magnet feeder components will arrive from China in September containing elements that need to be received, inspected and readied for installation early in the ITER assembly schedule. The feeder team...
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8 Jul 2019
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Global team for better efficiency

A unique work-sharing arrangement is expediting the design and fabrication of ITER's tokamak cooling water system and building the knowledge base that will be critical to plant commissioning and operation.
Tim Luce at Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
8 Jul 2019
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How can science change the world for the better?

Every year, a group of Nobel Laureates convenes in Lindau, Germany, for a week of interaction with young scientists from all over the world. ITER was invited to take part this year in a panel discussion titled "How Can...
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8 Jul 2019
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It's happening in the workshop

On a cold night in December 2015, a three-trailer convoy passed through the village of Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, adding its pulsating blue and orange lights to the Christmas illuminations. The convoy carried three 50-tonne...
ITER certified as pressure equipment manufacturer
8 Jul 2019
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ITER can now act as inspector

A component or system under pressure that contains (or might contain) activated elements falls under the category of "nuclear pressurized equipment." In ITER, components such as the vacuum vessel, the massive drain tanks...
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8 Jul 2019
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The stage is now set for the next act

Nine years and 382 Newsline issues ago, a lone power shovel began removing the top soil from the area on the ITER platform where the Tokamak Complex now stands. Following two years of clearing and levelling work by...
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1 Jul 2019
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A Titan's big hug

A Titan's hug is a slow affair. For the sector sub-assembly tools, rotating both arms from "full open" to "full close" will require no less than four hours of near-imperceptible motion.
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1 Jul 2019
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Sustained nuclear fusion? Not without control engineering

Without a system to counteract the different sources of variability, the plasma in the ITER tokamak would cease to produce power. Fortunately, scientists can take what has been learned in the discipline of control...
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24 Jun 2019
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Even closer cooperation

Under Practical Arrangements signed in June, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the ITER Organization will be expanding and deepening a long history of cooperation.
High voltage bushing installed on MITICA
24 Jun 2019
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High voltage component for MITICA

Creating reliable high-energy neutral beams at ITER parameters, from a negative ion source, requires such a large technological leap that the components of the neutral beam injection system are being tested in advance at...
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20 Jun 2019
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En route to First Plasma, 63% of the work is done

The ITER Council has met for the twenty-fourth time since the signature of the ITER Agreement. Representatives from China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States reviewed project status...
Ready for welding
17 Jun 2019
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A very international effort

The 18 upper ports of the ITER vacuum vessel are procured by Russia, manufactured in Germany, and mounted (in part) on the vessel sectors by contractors in Italy and Korea. Another example of how ITER would not be taking...
Contemporary art?
17 Jun 2019
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One level done, five to go

The job is done and the effect is spectacular. At the deepest basement level (B2) of the Tokamak Building, the floors, walls, and ceilings are now perfectly white.