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, ...

In the first practical use of ITER's real-time framework, a prototype system has been developed in conjunction with the Department of Microelectronics and Computer Science, Lodz University of ...

The fusion community in China and France celebrated the delivery of the last batch of plasma-facing units for the WEST ITER-grade divertor. Here, Jérôme Bucalossi, the head of IRFM, stands next to a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday 25 June, ITER awarded one of the most pivotal responsibilities of tokamak assembly to Westinghouse Electric Company. For the American powerhouse, better known for its decades of nuclear ...

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, ...

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 ...