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, ...

This year’s school focused on the integrated modelling of magnetic fusion plasmas. Reliable predictions of ITER plasmas, spanning the entire cross-section from the plasma core, the scrape-off layer, ...

After beginning its experimental life in the United Kingdom, the COMPASS tokamak went on to 12 years of successful operation at the Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP) in Prague. Now the IPP team is ...

Late in 2003, ITER Members China, the European Union, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States (India would join in December 2005) began seriously considering the question of where to site the ...

Runaway electrons, a searing, laser-like beam of electric current released by plasma disruptions, could damage the interior walls of future tokamaks the size of ITER. To help overcome this challenge, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several batches of magnet feeder components will arrive from China in September containing elements that need to be received, inspected and readied for installation early in the ITER assembly schedule ...

The power supply system is a vital part of electron cyclotron heating and current drive—the system at ITER designed for plasma initiation, heating, and control. Tests are underway now to prepare the ...

There is a new arrival in the tokamak pit—one that upends the perception of space and volume that regular observers had become accustomed to. With the successful insertion of sector module #6 on 18 ...

On 22 June, the first batch of equipment and materials for the facility's customized 68 kA power supply system reached ITER. Two other batches have been shipped from Shanghai harbour, and their ...

“Fusion can’t thrive in a vacuum,” said Shira Tabachnikoff, Communications Manager at ITER, at the Women in Fusion @SOFE2025 roundtable sponsored by AtkinsRéalis, as she challenged the notion that ...