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Convoy delivers overhead crane girders
10 Apr 2017
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Travelling light

Components for the ITER machine and plant systems come in all shapes, sizes and weights. For transportation purposes, the largest and heaviest fall into two categories: the Highly Exceptional Loads (HEL) and the...
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10 Apr 2017
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The "human element," true star of fusion documentary

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10 Apr 2017
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China completes its superconducting strand program

To mark the end of a 10-year campaign to produce China's share of superconducting strand for the ITER magnet systems, the Chinese Domestic Agency organized a ceremony attended by more than 100 people in Xi'an, a capital...
Radial plate departs
3 Apr 2017
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4 years and 35 radial plates: SIMIC completes production scope

European contractor SIMIC S.p.A. (Italy) has finished the series production of toroidal field radial plates—the grooved stainless steel plates that are inserted between layers of superconductor in ITER's toroidal field...
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3 Apr 2017
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When a transformer purrs

The low, regular "purring" of the transformer was the sign that everything was fine. Electricity was gently flowing from the grid substation to the 400 kV ITER switchyard, and from there into one of the four 22 kV...
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3 Apr 2017
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A narrow passage to ITER

At the gorge of Mirabeau, 10 kilometres to the south of the ITER site, the wide Durance riverbed abruptly narrows into a gully less than 180 metres wide.
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3 Apr 2017
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Pouring concrete, with grace

With their slowly moving booms extended, concrete pumps are sometimes as gracious as ballet dancers. They definitely were on 24 March when concrete pouring began on Plot 7 of the second (above ground) storey of the...
Rayburn House hosts ITER briefing
3 Apr 2017
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Time well spent in D.C.

On 22 March, Director-General Bernard Bigot once again made a 24-hour visit to Washington D.C.—a "whirlwind tour" as he prefers, with no time wasted. The occasion was a request for a briefing on ITER progress by the US...
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3 Apr 2017
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A conclave of industry

Like cardinals assembled for a conclave they sat on narrow velvet-padded stalls facing each other, five rows on one side and five rows on the other. The vast chamber was heavy with history: seven centuries ago, at the...
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20 Mar 2017
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A world in itself

From a height of some 50 metres, you have the entire ITER worksite at your feet.
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13 Mar 2017
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US completes toroidal field deliveries for ITER

The US Domestic Agency achieved a major milestone in February by completing the delivery of all US-supplied toroidal field conductor to the European toroidal field coil winding line at ASG in La Spezia, Italy.
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13 Mar 2017
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Thin diagnostic coils to be fitted into giant magnets

Last week was marked by the first delivery of diagnostic components—Continuous External Rogowski (CER) coils—from the European Domestic Agency to the ITER Organization.
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13 Mar 2017
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Addressing the challenge of plasma disruptions

Plasma disruptions are fast events in tokamak plasmas that lead to the complete loss of the thermal and magnetic energy stored in the plasma. The plasma control system in ITER will be responsible for minimizing the...
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13 Mar 2017
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Blending (almost) seamlessly into the landscape

Located in the foothills of the French Pre-Alps, the ITER installation blends almost seamlessly into the landscape. The architects' choice of mirror-like steel cladding for the main buildings of the installation has...
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13 Mar 2017
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The four-day Lego Tokamak

Seizing the scale
13 Mar 2017
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A photographic journey into the Pit

At the heart of the Tokamak Complex a deep, perfectly cylindrical well is taking shape. Here, the ITER Tokamak will be assembled from bottom up, enclosed in its stainless steel cryostat and surrounded by the thick...
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6 Mar 2017
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Cooling water piping 36 km long

Building a Sun on Earth requires not only extensive heating systems but also large cooling systems for the removal of plasma heat from the tokamak. Fabrication of tokamak cooling water system piping is now underway at...
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6 Mar 2017
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An alien shape for an awesome task

A component fallen from an alien star ship wouldn't look stranger than a cassette body for the ITER divertor. Depending on the angle of view, the heavy steel structure is vaguely evocative of a sled (the alien captain's...
Building ITER in Lego
6 Mar 2017
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2 Japanese students, 4 days and 40,000 Lego bricks

For almost a week, the lobby of the ITER Headquarters building was occupied by two special guests. Surrounded by mountains of boxes and thousands of brightly coloured bricks, Taishi Sugiyama and Kaishi Sakane from Kyoto...
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6 Mar 2017
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Correction coils: from qualification to production

A group of 18 superconducting correction coils will be distributed around the ITER tokamak at three levels. Much thinner and lighter than ITER's massive toroidal field and poloidal field magnets, their role is to reduce...