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9 Apr 2018
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Hot resin before the deep cold

It has been almost one year since the fabrication of the first ring coil was launched in the on-site Poloidal Field Coil Winding Facility by European Domestic Agency contractors. Out of the eight "double pancake"...
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9 Apr 2018
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ITER-relevant WEST officially inaugurated

With its external steel structure a deep blue; its poloidal field coils bright red and its waveguides sparkling yellow, Tore Supra (now WEST ) has always been an exceptionally colourful tokamak.
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9 Apr 2018
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Once upon a crane

Of all the features that have changed the most since the last bird's eye view of the ITER site in January, the bioshield is the most striking. For two years, the structure had remained open to the sky, looking more and...
Standing tall
9 Apr 2018
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First tool tested in June

Good progress on the installation of the first of two specialized tools for vacuum vessel pre-assembly means that by late June, the 22-metre-tall giant will be ready for functional testing.
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9 Apr 2018
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Gyrotron power supplies pass muster in Europe

The first power supply units produced in Europe for ITER's microwave plasma heating system have successfully passed factory acceptance tests.
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26 Mar 2018
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How do neutrons live and die?

Living without a partner dramatically reduces one's life expectancy. And what is true for human beings is even truer for neutrons. Bound to a proton inside an atomic nucleus, a neutron can expect to live forever; alone...
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26 Mar 2018
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Three years of progress

Three years ago in late March, the most imposing features on the ITER platform were the workshops for the cryostat (left) and the poloidal field coils (right)—vast facilities where the manufacturing and/or assembly of...
Comparing notes
26 Mar 2018
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A leap forward that benefits ITER

Last week's Newsline reported on the participation of the ITER Director-General in a US Congressional hearing on 6 March focused on the US fusion research program, including ITER. Rarely has such a visit seemed more...
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26 Mar 2018
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400-tonne coil taking shape in China

The first poloidal field coil to be installed during the ITER machine assembly phase may be one of the smallest in terms of lateral dimensions, but it tops out its five sister coils in weight due to the number of stacked...
MRX experiment
26 Mar 2018
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How would "halos" affect ITER?

Halo currents—electrical currents that flow from the hot, charged plasma that fuels fusion reactions and strike the walls of fusion facilities—could damage the walls of fusion devices like ITER.
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26 Mar 2018
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Entering the stage, one by one

As buildings rise out of the earth and equipment is progressively installed, ITER's Science & Operations Department is busy making plans to commission the first plant systems.
Testing a prototype shield block
19 Mar 2018
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Full-scale prototype passes key test in China

A full-scale prototype of a blanket shield block manufactured in China successfully passed acceptance tests, including the challenging hot helium leak testing in February. An important qualification milestone has been...
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19 Mar 2018
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Strong bipartisan support expressed

"For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world and all the wonder that would be." In the hearing room of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and...
SPIDER: world’s most powerful negative ion source
19 Mar 2018
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Demonstrating neutral beam injection at ITER scale

The critical technologies of neutral beam injection—the workhorse of ITER plasma heating—will be demonstrated in advance of ITER operation at a test facility located in Padua, Italy. Integrated commissioning of the...
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19 Mar 2018
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210 papers presented at KSTAR conference

ITER explained at 35,000 feet
19 Mar 2018
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ITER airborne on its way to science festival

Lufthansa believes that being stuck on a transatlantic flight can involve more than just eating, drinking and watching movies. That is why the German airline has created what it calls the "FlyingLab." Early in March, the...
Stephen Hawking’s zero-gravity flight
19 Mar 2018
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He hoped to see fusion in his lifetime

Stephen Hawking came into life on the very day that Galileo Galilei had left it, some 300 years earlier. He passed away on 14 March, the date of Albert Einstein's birth. If these coincidences are not enough to make one...
Lifting the bioshield lid
19 Mar 2018
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A temporary roof for the bioshield

In August of last year, a circular platform—the "lid"—was installed deep inside of the ITER bioshield, effectively splitting the well-shaped work area into two. The 140-tonne steel structure was designed to protect the...
WEST plasma heating system progress
26 Feb 2018
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A purple haze on the screens

Numbers, graphs and a wobbling purple haze on the monitoring screens—this is what a plasma shot looks like when seen from the control room of the WEST tokamak.
European gyrotron prototype under development
26 Feb 2018
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The year of the gyrotron

The first energy-generating devices of ITER's electron cyclotron resonance heating system will be finalized in 2018 after a multi-decade development program.