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6 May 2019
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Surveyed from every angle

Metrologists have performed the first "as-built" survey of a completed ITER component—the cryostat lower cylinder—before it was wrapped for outside storage.
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6 May 2019
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A "corbel" for the crane hall

At the uppermost level of the Tokamak Building, on the lateral wall extending out from the Assembly Hall, workers are busy pouring concrete for what looks like a massive balcony. The 80-metre long, 3.2-metre-wide...
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29 Apr 2019
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First vertical insertion

Final assembly activities on the first toroidal field coil to be shipped to ITER are well underway in Japan. The insertion of the superconducting winding pack into its structural case was achieved in March through the...
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29 Apr 2019
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Titan moves its little finger

A few days ago, one of the Titans in the Assembly Hall woke up and flexed its little finger. The movement was slow, almost imperceptible. Like in a living body, nerves and muscles (in the form of signal cables and...
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29 Apr 2019
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A promising newcomer

A small tokamak changed hands in July of last year. HT-6M, a circular limiter machine developed at the Chinese Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP) in the 1980s, was pulled out of retirement to start a new life at the...
Shattered pellet injector tested at JET
29 Apr 2019
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JET gets an injection

A shattered pellet injector using the same technology as that planned for disruption mitigation on ITER will be tested soon on the JET tokamak at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (UK). Technical commissioning of the...
A day for celebrating innovation
16 Apr 2019
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ITER in Da Vinci mode

"The most noble pleasure is the joy of understanding." Written more than 500 years ago in the private journal of Leonardo da Vinci, these words still felt timely and relevant to the 120 guests assembled on 15 April to...
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16 Apr 2019
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When the pit inspires an artist

On a Sunday morning, when all is silent and still on the ITER platform, an eerie dimension is added to the tokamak pit.
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16 Apr 2019
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In the steps of a giant

To the members of a panel on innovation and Italian leadership, the moderator had one question: how do you see Leonardo da Vinci's scientific method—a systematic approach to observation, analysis, knowledge and learning...
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16 Apr 2019
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A transfer that felt like art

Art has little to do with the transfer of a giant component. On Monday however, as ITER was preparing to celebrate Leonardo da Vinci's 500th anniversary, science, technology and industry conspired to provide a strikingly...
Sand blasting
8 Apr 2019
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Sandblasting

Whether at home or in a nuclear installation, a painting job begins with surface preparation. In the ITER tokamak pit, close to 3,000 square metres of wall need to be sandblasted prior to being coated with thick, smooth...
Powerful external heating
8 Apr 2019
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The system that makes the tokamak feel small

ITER is a big machine—by far the largest fusion device ever built. But there is a system just a few metres away that makes it look like a mere appendage to something much larger. The neutral beam system , with its three...
Agreement paves way for super-HEL delivery
8 Apr 2019
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Way now open for Japan's "super HEL"

The largest machine components and plant systems delivered to ITER by the seven Members fit into two main logistics categories¹—Conventional Exceptional Loads (CEL), delivered along regular roads, and Highly Exceptional...
Diagnostic feedthrough design prototypes
8 Apr 2019
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Positioned at the vacuum boundary

The design is advancing in Europe on a large set of components—electrical feedthroughs—that will be installed at the barrier between the air atmosphere outside the vacuum vessel and the ultra-high vacuum environment on...
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8 Apr 2019
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The future

In a few years, reality will reflect this artist's rendition of the completed ITER platform.
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8 Apr 2019
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Sealed away in its cocoon

To make room in the Cryostat Workshop for the assembly of the upper cylinder, contractors are preparing the completed lower cylinder for storage outside on the platform. The process involves reams of synthetic "cocooning...
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1 Apr 2019
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Fabrication begins on unique composite rings

After lengthy development , prototyping and test phases, the composite rings designed to help ITER's toroidal field coils cope with huge out-of-plane forces have been cleared for fabrication.
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1 Apr 2019
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Exploring possibilities

Visitors to the industrial exhibition at the ITER Business Forum (IBF) last week were treated to an unusual sight at ITER: a display featuring Canadian nuclear companies. ITER history buffs will remember that Canadian...
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1 Apr 2019
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A boost to ITER's workforce

They come from every ITER Member and contribute to the ITER Project in many different areas. The ITER Project Associates are a new type of resource in the ITER workforce, particularly in the scientific and technical...
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1 Apr 2019
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Planning for the Crane Hall

The last time Newsline climbed to the top of the highest worksite crane to take in the view it was a frigid December evening . Three months have passed and although the changes do not strike the eye, they are real.