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15 May 2017
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Saving time on the way to ITER operation

The huge database that the European tokamak JET has accumulated, both during the deuterium-tritium campaigns of the 1990s and in more recent operations with an ITER-like beryllium inner wall and tungsten divertor, is of...
Winding begins for poloidal field coil #5
1 May 2017
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And now, it's for keeps!

At first view, nothing distinguishes the current operations in the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility from those that got underway last November : steel-jacketed conductor is being unspooled, straightened, cleaned...
View from below
1 May 2017
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Countdown

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1 May 2017
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Make room for a massive component

When assembling parts for a component as massive as the ITER cryostat, space soon becomes scarce—even in a 110-metre long, 50 metre-wide workshop.
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1 May 2017
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Central solenoid feels the heat

The first of six independent magnets for ITER's central solenoid has successfully passed the heat treatment phase, which ultimately creates the solenoid's superconducting material. This milestone was reached in April at...
ITER exhibit at Astana's French Pavilion
1 May 2017
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Going to the World's Fair: ITER in Kazakhstan

On Saturday 10 June, the World's Fair will open for the first time in the central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan ... and ITER will be there.
Correction coils: work underway
1 May 2017
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Correction coils: case manufacturing to start

New progress has been made in the effort to qualify key manufacturing steps for correction coils—the 18 superconducting coils that will have a role to play in the overall magnetic geometry produced by ITER's different...
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24 Apr 2017
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The crown's jewels

They are the jewels of the concrete crown that will support the combined mass of the tokamak and its surrounding cryostat: 18 perfectly polished, chrome-plated spherical bearings, each weighing approximately 5 tonnes.
Starting in India on the cryostat upper cylinder
24 Apr 2017
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New cryostat manufacturing milestone

They all gathered—members of the ITER-India team and contractor Larsen & Toubro—to mark a portentous moment: the start of manufacturing on the upper cylinder of the ITER cryostat.
Type tests confirm compliance
24 Apr 2017
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Key power supply elements pass tests in Russia

Since the signature of a Procurement Arrangement in 2011 with Russia for switching networks, fast discharge units, DC busbars and instrumentation—all key elements of the ITER power supply and superconducting magnetic...
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24 Apr 2017
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First vessel subassembly achieved in Europe

Nine massive steel sectors delivered by the Domestic Agencies of Europe (five sectors) and Korea (four sectors) will be welded together on site during the assembly phase to form the torus-shaped ITER vacuum vessel.
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24 Apr 2017
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"Making the best of fusion installations in Europe"

With the recent addition of the Ukraine's Kharkov Institute for Physics and Technology (KIPT), the EUROfusion consortium now encompasses 30 European fusion laboratories. As its governing body—the General Assembly...
United colours of ITER
20 Apr 2017
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United coulours of ITER

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17 Apr 2017
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A wide angle on progress

Whether captured from the top of a crane or from a drone hovering at an altitude of a few dozen metres, the ITER site is always spectacular.
These openings stand out
17 Apr 2017
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Inside the arena

A visit to the deep "well" where the ITER Tokamak assembly will begin next year begins with a journey underground ... through a maze of giant pillars, omnipresent scaffolding and spiral staircases.
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17 Apr 2017
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10,000 tonnes of magnets to cool

In ITER, huge volumes of liquid helium will be circulated throughout a complex, five-kilometre network of pipes, pumps and valves to keep the 10,000-tonne magnet system at superconducting temperature. Helium will also be...
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17 Apr 2017
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Heaviest convoy yet

The triple convoy that reached ITER on Thursday 13 April was the heaviest ever organized since the beginning of "highly exceptional" deliveries in January 2015.
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10 Apr 2017
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Gouging the giant's eye

Chris Llewellyn Smith
10 Apr 2017
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"Today I saw the dream turning into reality"

A little less than ten years ago, on 21 November 2007, Chris Llewellyn Smith—a theoretical physicist who was at the time the director of the United Kingdom's fusion program—was elected Chair of the ITER Council. The ITER...
April Fool's fun
10 Apr 2017
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Witty piece from CCFE on April Fool's Day

JET's famous white buildings will soon be getting a new look as part of the European fusion experiment's preparations for its international successor, ITER.