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10 Jul 2017
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Cryostat lower cylinder now on stage

The Cryostat Workshop, in the northeast corner of the ITER worksite, has become a crowded and busy place. There are now two 30-metre assembly platforms supporting assembly and welding work on the cryostat base and the...
KSTAR 10 years ago
10 Jul 2017
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Ten years ago at KSTAR

Ten years ago, KSTAR (the Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) was entering the last phases of assembly. In this picture, taken on 11 January 2007, the KSTAR staff posed to celebrate the completion of "in...
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10 Jul 2017
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EAST plasma passes the 100 seconds mark

Recent experiments performed on the EAST superconducting tokamak in Hefei, China have demonstrated the sustainment of high temperature plasmas in the so-called H-mode confinement regime over a record timescale of over...
Vacuum vessel sectors taking shape in Italy
10 Jul 2017
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An insider's view of vacuum vessel fabrication

The complexity of the ITER vacuum vessel, its dimensions, the quantity of welding, and the degree of precision required makes the manufacturing effort for this strategic component one of the most challenging of the...
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3 Jul 2017
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3 million work hours, 3 million more to go

Work packages for building the ITER installation are divided into tender batches (TB), which are packages of activities awarded by the European Domestic Agency for the design, construction and equipment of buildings or...
Apollo’s influence
3 Jul 2017
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Apollo and ITER: payoffs from large science projects

Sustained investment in "big science" projects is never easy due to the extended time frames, fluctuation of cost estimates, and inevitable risks. Yet time and time again, history has proven that great socioeconomic...
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3 Jul 2017
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A familiar yet changing view

The view is familiar: a large Kaaba-like structure towering above a complex arrangement of walls and columns; a circular structure emerging from a carpet of iron rebar and steel plates; large and low buildings on each...
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3 Jul 2017
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First cryolines reach ITER

Exploded view of the MITICA beam source
3 Jul 2017
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All eyes on the neutral beam source

Millions of watts of heating power can be delivered to the plasma using neutral beam injection—the work horse of ITER's external heating methods. A research and development program is underway to test the critical...
Cryoplant team welcomes cold box
26 Jun 2017
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Cold boxes reach home

Three cryogenic plant cold boxes were moved last week from temporary storage to their final destination on the ITER site. It was the occasion to remember a piece of ITER history—that the former French President François...
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26 Jun 2017
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Kazakh Tokamak celebrates first plasma

The fusion world directed its applause to the east earlier this month as the Kazakh tokamak KTM started operations with a first plasma discharge.
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26 Jun 2017
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Without minimizing challenges, Council reaffirms commitment

On 24 October 2007, the ITER Organization was officially established following the ratification by the seven ITER Members of the project's constitutive document, the ITER Agreement. Now, nearly ten years on, a unique...
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26 Jun 2017
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Small delivery for a very massive tool

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19 Jun 2017
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Heat waves

Plasma is like a tenuous mist of particles—light atoms that have been dissociated into ions (the atom nucleus) and free-roaming electrons. In order to study plasma physics or to create the conditions that make fusion...
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19 Jun 2017
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What a difference ten days make

There was a time when progress in Tokamak Complex construction was easy to follow. Excavation in 2010; the creation of the ground support structure and seismic foundations from 2010 to 2014; the achievement of the...
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19 Jun 2017
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What's in the box?

At ITER, even the opening of a box takes on a spectacular dimension. The operation requires a powerful crane, a full team of specialists and, as everything ITER, the utmost care and precision.
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19 Jun 2017
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European Commission has "positive appreciation" of ITER progress

On 14 June, the European Commission issued a Communication presenting the revised schedule and budget estimates for European participation in ITER. Its object? To provide the necessary grounds to request the support of...
Speaking with a poet
19 Jun 2017
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Kazakh poet-ambassador: anti-nuclear and pro-fusion

Excitement was tangible among the invited guests and journalists when Olzhas Suleimenov , one of the most influential and respected poets and writers in modern Kazakhstan, visited the French pavilion and the ITER...
Kazakhstan signs a Cooperation Agreement with ITER
12 Jun 2017
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ITER signs Cooperation Agreement with Kazakhstan

The ITER Organization has officially welcomed the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC-RK) as a new technical collaborator.
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12 Jun 2017
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The challenge of superconducting joints

Destined for the lower levels of the Tokamak Building the magnet feeders —which will route supercritical helium, large amounts of electrical power and instrumentation to the superconducting magnet systems—are some of the...