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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is a place near Santander, Spain, where one can actually feel what ITER will be like. Although we've seen dozens of drawings and 3D animations, the encounter with a true-size mockup of the ITER ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

JET—the Joint European Torus*, used by 4,800 EUROfusion consortium experts, students and staff from across Europe—has set a world record for the most energy produced in a single fusion shot, ...