Macron and Modi tour ITER together

2025-02-17 - Step 1 of flipping a 440-tonne vacuum vessel sector: place it horizontally, on its frame, inside of the upending tool.

2025-02-12 - Stability, power density, scale ... ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi explains what scientists and engineers from the seven ITER Members—including Europe and India—are working so hard to achieve. During their 45-minute visit at ITER on 12 February 2025, Prime Minister Modi and President Macron were able to visit the major areas of ITER machine assembly. Credit: G. Lesénéchal/ITER Organization

2025-02-12 - History is made as two heads of state—French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi—visit ITER together on 12 February 2025.

2025-02-07 - Sector #8 arrives on its transport frame at the Cleaning Facility—an antechamber to the Assembly Hall. When it leaves again, its other side will be exposed.

2025-02-05 - Director-General Pietro Barabaschi participates in February in European Parliament hearings on Europe’s leadership in fusion energy, highlighting ITER’s pivotal role in advancing fusion as a viable energy source.

2025-02-03 - A new online boutique operated by ITER contractor Synneo proposes ITER-branded merchandise. Have a look at the selection of items at this address: https://shop-iter.org.

2025-02-03 - For one year now, 12 shift operation managers have been on duty rotation for 24/7 coverage of operational areas on the ITER site. Working from the temporary main control room (pictured) or on call, they coordinate daily activities and intervene in off-normal events when necessary.

2025-02-03 - Peter Kroul—from the IT System and Operation Section—is in the Scientific Data and Computer Centre, where ITER data will be stored, secured, processed and distributed throughout the lifetime of the machine. Data storage and management will begin in 2025 when the centre starts receiving data from various ITER plant systems.

2025-01-27 - The ITER Organization has signed two new contracts with its logistics partner since 2012, the global group DAHER. One covers industrial and site logistics through 2028 (component management, including storage, preservation and availability); the other covers international logistics through 2031 (packaging, transport, customs, insurance...).

2025-01-23 - During ITER's latest Star Awards campaign, 79 people from across the project are recognized for exemplary performance in line with ITER's corporate values.

2025-01-20 - A new tool at ITER allows anyone in the project to access an integrated 3D model that takes them from the highest-level view of the entire site, all the way down to a millimetre-level view of any component of the machine or plant. Engineers designing systems can visualize complete environments, while installation teams can avoid clashes.

2025-01-18 - In order to accelerate operations related to vacuum vessel sector repair and sector module assembly, the ITER Organization has ordered a second upending tool—a 200-tonne frame designed to lift huge components from horizontal to vertical. Manufactured by Yujin Mechatronics and destined for installation in the ITER Assembly Hall, the tool left the Korean port of Onsan on 18 January. The load was transferred two days later to the seafaring vessel that will reach Fos-sur-Mer harbour in mid-March. (Photo DAHER)

2025-01-14 - Like all ITER components, the torus and cryostat cryopumps that will create the vacuum conditions needed for ITER operation are subjected to comprehensive factory acceptance tests before shipment. But because this is not sufficient to guarantee that they will perform as expected during actual tokamak operation, a test facility has been created to bring the cryopumps to cryogenic temperatures (4 K or minus 269 °C). Engineers will be able to test a whole range of cryopump processes in the new facility, which is located in the ITER cryoplant for convient access to cryogenic fluids.

2025-01-14 - Cryoplant, vacuum, and ITER India contractor INOX-CVA team members pose in front of the new cryopump test facility—a test bench in the cryoplant designed to verify that ITER's powerful cryopumps perform as expected during actual tokamak operation. The test bench, which will require cryogenic fluids to test the cryopumps down to 4 K (minus 193 °C), will be the cryoplant's "first client."