Of Interest archive

2015

22 Dec 2015

2015 highlights from US ITER

The 2015 roundup of news from the US ITER Project Office is now available online. US ITER achieved a number of project "firsts" for…
22 Dec 2015

News & views on fusion in Europe

Fusion in Europe is a regular magazine on the progress of fusion research published by the EUROfusion consortium. In the December 2015…
21 Dec 2015

An Advent calendar of fusion spinoffs

For the close of the year, EUROfusion—the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy—is highlighting 24 cutting-edge…
17 Dec 2015

A new fusion collaboration for MIT

Members of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) community are cheering the start of a long-anticipated physics experiment at the…
14 Dec 2015

New deliveries from Russia

The Russian Domestic Agency for ITER reports that two shipments recently left factories in Saint Petersburg and Podolsk for the ITER…
14 Dec 2015

EUROfusion Tony Donné advocates prolonged use of JET

On 4 December the Programme Manager of EUROfusion, Tony Donné, visited ITER and spoke to staff in the ITER auditorium. EUROfusion is a…
7 Dec 2015

WEST milestone: divertor coil casings installed

The aim of the WEST project is to turn the Tore Supra tokamak (France) into a test bed for ITER, with an actively cooled ITER-like…
4 Dec 2015

RACE is on for ITER remote handling work

An 18-month development program to prototype remote handling tooling for the ITER fusion device was demonstrated on 26 and 27 October as…
30 Nov 2015

ITER Council names new Chair

At its seventeenth meeting in November 2015, the ITER Council named ​Won Namkung, from Korea, to succeed Robert Iotti as Chair effective 1…
30 Nov 2015

New mechanism for stabilizing tokamak plasmas

--Raphael Rosen, PPPL A team of physicists led by Stephen Jardin of the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory …
23 Nov 2015

Capturing a spectacular operation

One of the most spectacular operations ever performed on the ITER site was the lifting of the Assembly Hall roof structure during the night…
20 Nov 2015

Vacuum vessel sectors take shape in Italy

​The ITER vacuum vessel is composed of nine sectors, two of which are being procured by Korea and seven by Europe. In Italy, production of…
20 Nov 2015

Rob Goldston wins "Best Paper" award

​The editorial board of the journal Nuclear Fusion has selected Rob Goldston, a fusion researcher and Princeton University professor of…
16 Nov 2015

ITER releases new website

​ ITER launched its new website this week! A techier look to go with our ultra-hi-tech mission. For all those friends who ask you over…
16 Nov 2015

FuseNet PhD event: off to an enthusiastic start

The ramp-up time for achieving a fusion reaction inside a tokamak machine varies, depending on a certain number of boundary conditions such…
16 Nov 2015

MIIFED - IBF 2016: registration has started!

The Monaco ITER International Fusion Energy Days (MIIFED) and the ITER Business Forum (IBF) 2016 will take place in Monaco from 8 to…
16 Nov 2015

The chancellor, the terrorists and the tokamak

​Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who died on 10 November at age 96, played an essential but little-known role in the decision to…
9 Nov 2015

Testing the thermal tolerance of the fusion reactors of the future

Nuclear fusion is an attractive option for creating sustainable energy, in principle using the same reactions found at the…
9 Nov 2015

Adam Cohen succeeds Michael Knotek as Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Energy (US)

After nearly seven years as deputy director for operations at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL…
9 Nov 2015

New clip revisits installation of the on-site transformers

A new video clip produced by the European Domestic Agency revisits the installation of first four on-site transformers. A total power of…