The use of 3D technology for assessing design maturity and performing assembly simulations is key to large construction projects such as ITER. After two years of relying on technology installed at the ...

The Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas (CRPP) in Switzerland has studied fundamental plasma physics since 1961, with a particular focus on magnetic fusion since 1979. Part of the Ecole ...

The European Domestic Agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, started the new year with the completion of an important milestone linked to Europe's contribution to ITER: the successful manufacturing of ...

When Jamy explains, children in France listen ... fascinated. For the past 20 years his program C'est pas sorcier ("It's not rocket science") on French public television Channel 3 has opened their ...

The ITER superconducting magnets, which operate at the ultra-cold temperature of 4 K (minus 269 °C), must be protected from any type of heat transfer. Several components contribute to the magnetic ...

The 33rd Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT 2024) opened on Monday 23 September in Gaelic. Dublin City University Vice President for Academic Affairs, Lisa Looney, wished conference participants a ...

A four-year program to manufacture and test a full-scale prototype of the divertor outer vertical target has successfully come to an end in Japan, as manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy Industries receives ...

ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi made a diplomatic trip to China last week to represent the ITER Project at multiple high-level meetings. On Thursday 5 September, Director-General Barabaschi ...

A yearly tradition in the ITER community for more than a decade now, the ITER Games offer a pleasant way to reconnect among colleagues and neighbours after the summer recess. On Saturday 14 September, ...

A group of fusion researchers has left Padua, Italy, for an 800-kilometre bike trip to the ITER site. Their goal? To share information about fusion energy research and career opportunities in the ...

Of the nine sets of thermal shields that wrap the nine vacuum vessel sectors like a tight-fitting jacket, seven were sent for repairsto INOX-CVA in India. Two have returned, fully repaired, to ITER.

As part of in-kind contributions to ITER, Russia is supplying switching equipment, busbars, energy-absorbing resistors and control racks for the power supply and protection of the ITER superconducting ...