At the opening of Fusion Energy Day on 13 July, ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi was joined on stage by senior dignitaries from the Japanese Government, representatives of ITER Member states, ...

They have just arrived in Tampere, Finland to witness the final demonstration ITER divertor remote handling (see article in this issue). There is an unusual buzz in the facility and every protocol ...

First-phase plant assembly contracts cover the systems needed for the Start of Research Operations. This category includes the cryogenic, cooling water and electrical plants; basic diagnostics; some ...

What kind of incidents might occur within the TBM systems? A loss of coolant or a decrease in the coolant rate of flow, for example, could indicate a ruptured pipe or an anomaly in the pumping system.

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 ...

Romanian scientists have developed a new technology for reinforcing the wall of a fusion reactor to resist hot plasma. This marks an important step forward for the success of ITER, the world's biggest ...

On 21 September, a ceremony was held at Western Superconducting Technologies (WST) in Xi'an, China, to mark the completion of the final batch of niobium-tin (Nb3Sn) superconducting strands for ITER's ...

The European Domestic Agency has awarded contracts for the fabrication of three full-size prototypes of the blanket first wall, an important next step in the qualification of the first wall panels ...

Tungsten is particularly suitable as material for highly stressed parts of the vessel enclosing a hot fusion plasma, as it is the metal with the highest melting point. A disadvantage, however, is its ...

ITER-India started off with 50 scientists and engineers who initially joined from the Institute for Plasma Research (IPR) at Gandhinagar. Now the team has grown to 120 permanent staff. In addition, ...

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The universe is alive with burning plasmas—billions and billions of nuclear furnaces tirelessly fusing hydrogen atoms. With ITER, for the first time in the history of man, a burning plasma will be ...