Aiming for three times as fast

2024-11-15 - At the ITER stand at COP29, Sehila Gonzalez of the Clean Air Task Force presents a new report on how the commercialization of fusion energy will benefit from artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. She is joined by Jake Oster, Director of Energy and Environment Policy at Amazon Web Services; Lucio Milanese, CEO of Proxima Fusion; and Erik Fernandez, General Manager of INEUSTAR.

2024-11-08 - The first vacuum vessel sector delivered by Europe, sector 5, arrived two weeks ago. Since then, it has been settled into a space in the former Cryostat Workshop on its transport frame and unpacked.

2024-11-08 - After nearly three months of travel, including four nights along the ITER itinerary to finally reach the worksite, vacuum vessel sector #1 is delivered by Korea. This concludes the procurement of the four sectors that were under Korean responsibility (#6, #7, #8 and #1).

2024-11-08 - Fusion for Energy, the European Domestic Agency, has officially handed over the Radiofrequency Building to the ITER Organization. Construction began in 2016 and, today, equipment installation is well underway.

2024-11-06 - At the inaugural ministerial meeting of the World Fusion Energy Group (WFEG) on 6 November, ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi takes part in a panel discussion titled "Fusion Energy: State of Play." He also delivers general remarks to the assembly and meets with IAEA Director General Grossi, European Union Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson, and Italian Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin. (Photo: IAEA)

2024-10-21 - All of the largest ITER components travel from the Fos-sur-Mer port of arrival to the ITER site along a special road itinerary. Moving only at night to minimize the disturbance to local communities, they are stored during the day in secure areas (pictured, is European vacuum vessel sector #5).

2024-10-16 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2024-09-24 - The European Domestic Agency is ready to ship vacuum vessel sector #5—the first of five European sectors expected at ITER. Cleaning is underway (photo) to prepare the component for packaging. ©F4E (August 2024)

2023-06-08 - The ITER Tokamak will be the largest device of its kind in the world, with a plasma volume of 840 m³. Photo credit: US ITER