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Assembling a sector from its parts
6 Feb 2017
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Piece by piece the vacuum vessel takes shape

The AMW consortium (Ansaldo Nucleare S.p.A, Mangiarotti, Walter Tosto) was chosen in 2010 by the European Domestic Agency to manufacture Europe's contribution to the ITER vacuum vessel. The photos below document progress...
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6 Feb 2017
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Last stages of assembly for 1st pre-production cryopump

Mechanical pumps alone cannot achieve the vacuum quality that is indispensable to producing the ITER plasmas (that is, one hundred billionth the density of the atmosphere). Once mechanical pumps have evacuated most of...
Welcoming visitors to ITER
6 Feb 2017
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15,000 visitors in 2016; close to 115,000 since 2007

Visits at ITER are one of the best ways to establish, and maintain, a close relationship with the public. School children, university students, industrial representatives, members of the general public and government...
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6 Feb 2017
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Ozonators on their way

Testing EUROFER97
6 Feb 2017
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The European steel that doesn't fear neutrons

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6 Feb 2017
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A drone flyover of the ITER site

Demonstrating real-time error field correction
30 Jan 2017
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Real-time smoothing of magnetic field irregularities

E-houses arrive for pulsed power network
30 Jan 2017
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Fully furnished E-house

When ITER enters operation, orders originating in the control room for the electrical networks will be processed in "E-houses," where dozens of instrumentation and control (I&C) cubicles will relay them to the switchyard...
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30 Jan 2017
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An unconventional approach to fusion

There's no easy road to fusion. Whether one travels the large route forged by six decades of research on hundreds of machines, or whether one tries to open a way through uncharted and exotic territory, difficulties...
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30 Jan 2017
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Assembly milestones for ITER "satellite" JT-60SA

The Satellite Tokamak Program, JT-60SA , is a major modification of the existing JT-60U tokamak at the Naka Fusion Institute in Japan.
ITER site partially cleared for construction
30 Jan 2017
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Ten years ago preparation works began on the ITER site

On 29 January 2007, ten years ago almost to the day, preparation work began on the large stretch of national forest that was to host the ITER site.
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30 Jan 2017
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Next ITER Business Forum: 28-30 March 2017

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23 Jan 2017
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The making of a ring coil—a photo story

From one end to the other of the on-site manufacturing facility for poloidal field coils, the different production stations are now clearly delimited, with tooling in various stages of installation. In this 257-metre...
A team perspective on switchyard operations
23 Jan 2017
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First steps towards "energizing"

It takes more than the flipping of a switch to connect the ITER site to the French national grid. The operation, called a "first energizing," is a complex, step-by-step procedure that requires close coordination with the...
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23 Jan 2017
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The bioshield rises

MareNostrum: advancing fusion simulations
23 Jan 2017
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Barcelona Supercomputer Center and ITER strengthen ties

Counting on metrology
16 Jan 2017
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Men of measure

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." [From the Greek historian Herodotus; also inscribed on the New York City Post Office.]
Final ITER toroidal field conductor produced
16 Jan 2017
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The end of a nine-year journey

In December, as toroidal field conductor unit length #133 came off the production line, the ITER community celebrated a major milestone—the end of a nine-year procurement campaign to procure 88 km of niobium-tin (Nb3Sn)...
Steel couplers: small but critical
16 Jan 2017
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The little coupler that could

Concrete and steel met at the end of the 19th century, never to part again. From their encounter a new material was born that revolutionized construction techniques.
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16 Jan 2017
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The radio power house

The steel structure that's being erected against the northeast side of the Assembly Hall is for a large building that will be densely packed with power supplies and energy convertors designed to deliver 40 MW of heating...