Of Interest archive

2025

17 Jan 2025

14th ITER International School announced

The 14th ITER International School (IIS) will be held from 30 June to 4 July in Aix-en-Provence, France, hosted by Aix-Marseille University…
17 Jan 2025

ITER Business Forum: registration open now

The ITER Business Forum 2025 (IBF/25) will take place in Marseille, France from 23 to 25 April 2025.Through plenary sessions, workshops,…
13 Jan 2025

UKAEA debuts its "Starmaker 2" documentary

The first documentary film Starmaker was released in 2022 by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority UKAEA. It retraced the journey of…
13 Jan 2025

SOFE 2025: abstract deadline extended

The 2025 Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE 2025) is planned from 23 to 26 June 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted by the MIT Plasma…

2024

17 Dec 2024

Latest ITER photobook

The ITER Organization has just released a 200-page photobook that covers progress in construction, manufacturing and assembly between 2013…
16 Dec 2024

360° virtual tour updated

The 360° virtual tour of ITER construction has been updated with drone footage from October 2024. Discover the principal buildings of the…
12 Dec 2024

Fusion workforce report, 2024

The Fusion Industry Association has released The Fusion Workforce: Where it’s heading and how to prepare. It provides a roadmap for…
2 Dec 2024

New campaign underway at KSTAR

The team operating the Korean tokamak KSTAR has announced it is running a new campaign of experiments focused on developing high…
19 Nov 2024

AI, high-performance computing and fusion: a report

A new report from the non-profit environmental organization Clean Air Task Force (CATF) explores how artificial intelligence (AI) and high…
19 Nov 2024

How divertor testing at WEST helps ITER

A new video explores how the WEST tokamak, run and operated by the Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research (IRFM) at the French…
15 Nov 2024

Falling Walls: recording available

At the Falling Walls Science Summit in Berlin (7-9 November 2024), global experts gathered to discuss how innovation intersects with…
12 Nov 2024

New aerial photos

Fourteen years after the start of ITER project construction, the buildings of the scientific installation are nearly complete—except for…
12 Nov 2024

New drone video

At least once a year, the ITER worksite is surveyed by drone from every possible angle—from the widest frame (a kilometre above the…
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6 Nov 2024

New IAEA publication: Fusion Key Elements

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has just published Fusion Key Elements, a document that aims to build a common…
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6 Nov 2024

New IAEA publication: World Fusion Outlook 2024

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been promoting fusion energy research and development for over 60 years, and it continues…
25 Oct 2024

DIII-D tokamak passes 200,000 shots

The DIII-D tokamak team at General Atomics (San Diego, US) is celebrating a milestone this month—achieving, and passing, the 200,000th…
14 Oct 2024

Barge crossing for sector 5

Arriving at the French port of Fos-sur-Mer from Monfalcone, Italy, was only the first stage of transport for vacuum vessel sector 5. Next,…
14 Oct 2024

Coming soon: new ITER website

This month, ITER will be launching a new version of its public website. The change was compelled for technical reasons, including the need…
14 Oct 2024

JT-60SA is the world's largest tokamak

The JT-60SA experiment has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's largest tokamak, as measured in terms of…
7 Oct 2024

16 receive EUROfusion "Bernard Bigot" research grants

EUROfusion “Bernard Bigot” Researcher Grants (ERG) are awarded annually to promising fusion researchers at the post-doctoral stage of their…