Plus lourd que trois Tour Eiffel, aussi haut que la voûte de l'Arc de Triomphe, le tokamak ITER est un instrument scientifique de très haute précision. L'assemblage de ce prodigieux Meccano, à partir ...

The contract covers the design of the cable trays for the whole ITER installation, including: seismic analysis and supporting structures; routing of all the cables; production of bill of materials for ...

Because of the international nature of the magnet community, the conference location rotates between North America, Europe, and Asia. This year, which happens to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ...

Le voyage avait commencé à la mi-novembre au sortir du port d'Ulsan, en Corée, à plus de 9 000 kilomètres du site d'ITER. Deux mois plus tard, le 17 janvier, le "colis" arrivait enfin.

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, ...

The transfer of sector module #7 to the tokamak assembly pit, on Thursday 10 April, was many things in one. Hailed as a “record performance” by ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi, considered a ...

Qualitatively, the Q of ITER signifies the achievement of a "burning plasma"—a state of matter that has never been produced on Earth and that will usher in a new era of fusion research.In a burning ...

Impurities, in the form of particles detached from materials inside the vacuum vessel, can be among a plasma's worst enemies. Even in trace amounts, they drain energy from the plasma, degrade its ...

It's not Lego, but it is definitely "hands-on." To offer a tangible device to illustrate the workings of magnetic confinement fusion in a tokamak, the ITER Organization has worked with the Hungarian ...

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Following the passing of former Director-General Bernard Bigot in May 2022, the ITER Council launched a search and recruitment effort to select his successor.In an extraordinary meeting in Paris on 14 ...

Inside the ITER vacuum vessel, where the fusion reactions will occur, the ultra-high vacuum is comparable to that on the Moon. Conventional mechanical pumping alone is not sufficient to create such an ...