Of Interest archive

2020

29 Jul 2020

3D tour updated (June 2020)

The 360° virtual tour of ITER construction has been updated with drone footage from late May 2020. Plunge 30 metres into the ITER Tokamak…
29 Jul 2020

ITER assembly | All you need to know in one spot

Timed to meet worldwide attention on the ITER Project at the launch of its machine assembly phase, a new section of the ITER website has…
20 Jul 2020

Making headway on the vacuum vessel in Europe

In a report published this month, the European Domestic Agency for ITER, Fusion for Energy, explains how progress was maintained on the…
20 Jul 2020

European Fusion Teacher Day 2020

Secondary school teachers across Europe are invited to participate virtually in the 2020 European Fusion Teacher Day, hosted by FuseNet,…
23 Jun 2020

How can fusion change our future?

Looking for a new way to explain fusion in your classrooms and boardrooms? Interested in a two-minute summary of what fusion is and…
22 Jun 2020

ITER needs 60 small diamond windows

Synthetic diamond windows will play a double function in the ITER machine—allowing the microwaves of the electron cyclotron heating system…
15 Jun 2020

Reflected waves: a diagnostic for measuring plasma density

A wealth of information about the behaviour and stability of the ITER plasma will be communicated by the return signals of the low…
8 Jun 2020

FEC 2020 postponed to May 2021

The 28th edition of the IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2020) has been postponed. Originally scheduled to take place from 12 to 17…
22 May 2020

Ignite private sector entry into the fusion market

The sunrise of fusion startups has also reached Japan. A team from Kyoto University founded its fusion startup in October 2019. Kyoto…
18 May 2020

Andlinger Highlight Seminar Series

On 14 May 2020, ITER Director-General Bernard Bigot participated virtually in a Highlight Seminar organized by the Andlinger Center for…
18 May 2020

Documentary on fusion from China's CGTN

The Chinese television network CGTN has released an episode of its series "Decoding the Future" on hydrogen fusion. What is fusion?…
6 Apr 2020

Preliminary Design Review of the COMPASS-U tokamak

COMPASS, a small tokamak located at the Institute of Plasma Physics (Czech Academy of Sciences) in Prague, will soon become …
30 Mar 2020

Virtual reality tour updated

The 360° virtual tour of ITER construction has been updated with drone footage from late February 2020. Fly in, out and over the principal…
23 Mar 2020

Upgrade at Wendelstein 7-X

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator facility at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany, is preparing for…
9 Mar 2020

Fusion podcast: Plans for STEP, the newest tokamak on the block

The latest 30-minute episode  of the fusion podcast A Glass of Seawater discusses plans for a new compact fusion reactor at…
24 Feb 2020

Young talent meets leading researchers in Thailand

ITER science and technology was one of the topics that more than 80 students from across southeast Asia explored at the sixth ASEAN School…
24 Feb 2020

Half time at ITER

In a rare moment off the playing field, 100 of France's top under 17 rugby players visited the ITER site last week, taking advantage…
17 Feb 2020

Europe | Precise measuring tool developed for ITER

When there is no off-the-shelf solution, develop your own! This was the mind-set of the European contractor that—because no available …
17 Feb 2020

Monaco-ITER postdoctoral positions | Apply by 1 March

If your PhD was awarded after 1 January 2017—or you are about to obtain one—you are eligible to apply for a Monaco-ITER …
10 Feb 2020

Exploring the Sun's uncharted regions

Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with strong NASA participation, the Solar Orbiter mission, which lifted off from Cape Canaveral…