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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) fosters international collaboration and helps to close gaps in the physics and technology of nuclear fusion by organizing a series of conferences and ...

Satellite cleanliness engineering will help protect the ITER tokamak from construction contamination. When the ITER vacuum team realized that the level of construction debris and concrete dust in the ...

The next edition of the ITER Business Forum will take place in Marseille, France, from 23 to 25 April 2025. The international ITER Business Forum will showcase industrial activities, employment ...

New results published in Physical Review Letters suggest that instabilities driven by energetic particles can have a positive impact on fusion performance. In the 150-million-degree burning plasma of ...

Tensions rose in the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) as the seconds counted down. At stake was the first crucial test of a high-powered mixture of fuel for ...

A robust detection system is under development to protect the ITER magnets in case of quenches—those events in a magnet's lifetime when superconductivity is lost and the conductors return to a ...