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3 Sep 2018
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Closing the case

Over the past six years, the Chinese institute responsible for the fabrication of ITER's 18 correction coils has successively qualified the winding, impregnation, case manufacturing and assembly steps. A final review...
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3 Sep 2018
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Seven in one blow

Deep inside the Tokamak Building is a room large enough to accommodate a three-storey building. The floor and lower walls are lined with stainless steel plates; like stars on the firmament, hundreds of embedded plates...
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23 Jul 2018
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Filled from floor to ceiling

The ITER cryoplant used to be a vast echoey chamber with 5,400 m² of interior space divided into two areas; now, it is filled from floor to ceiling with industrial equipment. Three parties are sharing responsibility for...
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23 Jul 2018
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Adjusting, welding, testing ...

The assembly of the ITER cryostat—the stainless steel "thermos" that insulates the ultra-cold superconducting magnets from the environment—is progressing in an on-site workshop under the responsibility of the Indian...
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23 Jul 2018
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Full steam ahead

In this central arena of the construction site, construction teams are active three shifts a day—two full work shifts and a third, at night, dedicated to moving scaffolding and formwork in preparation for the next day's...
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23 Jul 2018
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Turning tables and hot resin

One of only two manufacturing facilities located on the ITER site, the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility was constructed by Europe to house the winding, impregnation and assembly activities for ITER's largest ring...
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23 Jul 2018
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One giant standing

Two identical handling tools in the Assembly Hall will play a critical role in preparing ITER's nine vacuum vessel sectors for their final journey: transport by overhead crane into the Tokamak Pit. Called the sector sub...
US Secretary Rick Perry gets first-hand look at ITER
23 Jul 2018
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US Energy Secretary Rick Perry gets first-hand look at ITER

Marking an important step in the US review of ITER Project progress, on Wednesday 11 July ITER Organization received a visit from the Head of the United States Department of Energy, Secretary Rick Perry. The most senior...
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23 Jul 2018
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Summer postcards

A building that, from a certain angle, looks like the bow of a spaceship; a handling tool that evokes a mechanical Titan, slowly opening and closing giant arms; a steel-lined room that seems to open out onto the star...
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9 Jul 2018
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Will fusion run out of fuel?

One of the paradoxes of fusion, the virtually inexhaustible energy of the future, is that it relies on an element that does not exist—or just barely. Tritium, one of the two hydrogen isotopes implemented in ITER and in...
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9 Jul 2018
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The view one never tires of

For the past three-and a half years, ITER Communication has been documenting construction progress from the top of the tallest crane on the ITER worksite. Although shooting the same place from the same viewpoint might be...
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9 Jul 2018
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Setting up a robust process

Are the ITER systems and processes robust enough to manage the technical and project data for a program of ITER's complexity? Will quality information be made available to the assembly contractors on time? Is a system in...
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9 Jul 2018
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Bullseye

Two perfectly circular structures, looking a lot like archery targets, have been installed on the west-facing wall of the Tokamak Complex.
Seeking new perspectives on fusion
9 Jul 2018
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Seeking new perspectives on fusion

Standing in the middle of the Tokamak Building, sound artist Julian Weaver positions his 3D microphone near one of the openings of the bioshield to record the soundscape created by the activities below. Just a few metres...
Paul Allen tours ITER
2 Jul 2018
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Microsoft co-founder visits ITER

He co-founded of one of the most iconic companies of the last half-century. His philanthropy and technology innovation has made him a champion in the fight against Ebola ... a primary funder of major brain science and...
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2 Jul 2018
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The "slump test" ritual

Like ancient priests bent over the entrails of a sacrificial bull, a group of men in hard hats are carefully examining a bucketful of semiliquid concrete as it slowly expands on a perfectly flat steel slab.
Fusion boundary plasma experts convene
2 Jul 2018
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Where two worlds meet

Every other year for almost half a century, experts from two very different fields of research have been meeting to discuss one of the most critical issues facing the long-term success of fusion energy: the interaction...
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2 Jul 2018
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Kazakhstan Agreement bears first fruit

The visit of a delegation from Kazakhstan on 29 June was the occasion to discuss opportunities for joint research activities made possible by an Agreement concluded last year between the ITER Organization and the Kazakh...
Testing optical fibres for neutron resistance
2 Jul 2018
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Testing the resistance to radiation

Inside the ITER machine, the divertor and the blanket will be equipped with more than 1,000 fibre optic sensors for recording temperature, strain, displacement and acceleration—important feedback to estimating the health...
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25 Jun 2018
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Russia completes its share of poloidal field conductor

Russia has officially completed its second in-kind Procurement Arrangement for ITER—producing 20 percent of the superconductors required for the poloidal field magnet system.