A glimpse into the future for commercial fusion reactors

2024-10-15 - ITER vacuum vessel sector #1, shipped by the Korean Domestic Agency, has been unloaded at the French port of Fos-sur-Mer. It is expected at ITER in early November.

2024-10-11 - ITER volunteers help with stands in three towns over two weekends in October to make sure that the ITER project is represented locally for the Fête de la Science--a national celebration of science held annually in France.

2024-10-08 - The ITER Director-General visits Russia in October 2024, meeting with stakeholders and holding technical meetings with colleagues in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In this photo, he is meeting with Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev (second from right).

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)

2024-09-18 - These electrical busbars, sized to deliver up to 70 kA of current, have been installed on ceiling supports in the Diagnostics Building at L5 level.

2024-09-16 - Close to two years have passed since vacuum vessel assembly was halted when defects were identified in the ITER tokamak's vacuum vessel sectors and thermal shield. Following the definition of a repair strategy, and the execution of repairs, vacuum vessel assembly (pairing a sector with thermal shielding and toroidal field coils to create a sector module) has restarted on sector #7 in the Assembly Hall.

2024-06-20 - Photo: ITER Organization/EJF Riche

2024-03-13 - A powerful telephoto lens makes it look like ITER is sited in the foothills of the pre-Alps, when in fact they are 60 kilometres away.

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