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Of Interest archive

2017

13 Feb 2017

Update available to 360° ITER site tour

A lot has happened on the construction platform since the ITER 360° virtual tour was released to the website last year with…
7 Feb 2017

EUROfusion statement on Brexatom

In a recent statement to parliament, the UK government confirmed that—as part of withdrawal from the European Union—the UK would also…
6 Feb 2017

9th ITER International School

Aix-Marseille University and the ITER Organization are pleased to announce the 9th ITER International School which will be held in Aix-en…
30 Jan 2017

Looking for a high-alloy needle in the haystack

Could high-entropy alloys—a combination of different metals in roughly equal concentration—turn out to be THE material for fusion reactors?…
23 Jan 2017

The Welding Institute visits ITER

Specialists from The Welding Institute (TWI) in the United Kingdom visited ITER on 18 January to deliver a workshop to over 70 attendees…
23 Jan 2017

New member for the EUROfusion consortium

The EUROfusion consortium welcomed its 30th member in January: Ukraine. The Ukrainian signatory is the Kharkov Institute for Physics and…
16 Jan 2017

New issue of ASDEX Upgrade newsletter

The latest newsletter from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak team in Germany reviews the improvements that were made in 2016 to the…
16 Jan 2017

ITER-like vertical stabilization system tested on EAST tokamak

At the EAST tokamak in China, five Italian scientists recently joined their Chinese colleagues to participate in a week-long experiment…
9 Jan 2017

Logistics provider DAHER to run new distribution centre

In 2012 the ITER Organization retained the European company DAHER to provide global transport, logistic and insurance services for the…
9 Jan 2017

Supercomputer in Japan used for plasma edge simulation

Precise conditions are necessary to achieve fusion reactions inside of a high-temperature plasma. In addition to raising the …

2016

16 Dec 2016

Fusion issue of "Europhysics News"

Europhysics News has produced a special issue on nuclear fusion and plasma physics (Volume 47/No 5-6, September-December 2016). The issue…
16 Dec 2016

Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award

Stefan Gerhardt (left), principal research physicist and head of experimental operations on the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade…
12 Dec 2016

Rehearsing for the big performance at JET

Even the greatest performers need rehearsals ... and JET is no exception. Scientists and engineers at the world's largest operating tokamak…
12 Dec 2016

FOM to tame the flame

The FOM Institute DIFFER, in the Netherlands, is starting a large research program to investigate one of the most fundamental…
5 Dec 2016

Basement tanks on order for Tritium Plant

The European Domestic Agency for ITER has awarded a contract to Equipos Nucleares SA (ENSA, Spain) for the supply of two holding tanks and…
5 Dec 2016

Walking through JET's vacuum vessel

For the first time in twenty years, a tokamak will experiment with nuclear plasmas. Ian Chapman, the recently appointed UKAEA Chief…
28 Nov 2016

WEST in starting monoblocks

After four years of non-stop work, the French tokamak Tore Supra has now become WEST,the tungsten (W) Environment Steady-state…
28 Nov 2016

Well-earned pause in activity for the JET tokamak

The 2015-2016 experimental campaign at the JET tokamak, Europe's flagship device, came to an end on 15 November with nearly all goals met,…
21 Nov 2016

Quadrillions of calculations per second for fusion

The Radiation Transport Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has won a prestigious award through the US DOE Innovative and Novel…
14 Nov 2016

First deliveries for centralized piping procurement

Less than one year ago, last December, the ITER Organization signed a large supply contract with W. Schulz GmbH in Germany for the…