Last week, the ITER Organization concluded the final design review for a full-tungsten ITER divertor. In this three-day assessment, which was the culmination of eighteen months of design, analysis, ...
Like the members of any ordinary family, they had argued and finally agreed again. Nevertheless, at this week's ITER Organization-Domestic Agency meeting it was time to say goodbye to Didier Gambier, ...
Gyro is ancient Greek for "circle," and tron—abstracted from "electron"—has been used since the late 1930s to name newly formed physics compounds. Now, if you want to name a device based on the ...
After three days and 29 presentations, a comprehensive design review with probably the largest participation in the history of the ITER project was completed last week. More than 80 experts from the ...
KTM is a rather small, spherical machine with a vacuum vessel volume of 12.3 cubic metres (compared to ITER's 840 cubic metres). Magnetic fields are provided by a central solenoid and an array of 20 ...
The manufacturing of ITER components is underway in factories all around the world. This short video, presented by ITER Director-General Motojima to the representatives of the seven ITER Members, took ...
Thursday morning, the lobby of Agence Iter France was filled with the smell of freshly baked baguettes, croissants and pains au chocolat. There were also mimosa, fig, rose and other jams. For those ...
While performing the recent experiments, the Chinese scientists led by Jiangang Li and Houyang Guo and their international collaborators from Germany, USA, France and the ITER Organization discovered ...
It's only 1:50-scale but, still, it can't fail to impress: this week, a new model of the Tokamak arrived at ITER Headquarters after a long voyage from the manufacturing shop of See & See Power Tech in ...
Only centimetres away from ITER's 150-million-degree-Celsius "fusion furnace," certain components will be operating at temperatures that are at the extreme opposite end of the scale. The magnets ...
In a few weeks, on 31 December 2013, the European Fusion Development Agreement known as EFDA will come to an end. It will be reborn as a consortium called EUROfusion. ITER Newsline talked to EFDA/JET ...