Of Interest archive
2017
13 Feb 2017
Update available to 360° ITER site tour
A lot has happened on the construction platform since the ITER 360° virtual tour was released to the website last year with…
7 Feb 2017
EUROfusion statement on Brexatom
In a recent statement to parliament, the UK government confirmed that—as part of withdrawal from the European Union—the UK would also…
6 Feb 2017
9th ITER International School
Aix-Marseille University and the ITER Organization are pleased to announce the 9th ITER International School which will be held in Aix-en…
30 Jan 2017
Looking for a high-alloy needle in the haystack
Could high-entropy alloys—a combination of different metals in roughly equal concentration—turn out to be THE material for fusion reactors?…
23 Jan 2017
The Welding Institute visits ITER
Specialists from The Welding Institute (TWI) in the United Kingdom visited ITER on 18 January to deliver a workshop to over 70 attendees…
23 Jan 2017
New member for the EUROfusion consortium
The EUROfusion consortium welcomed its 30th member in January: Ukraine. The Ukrainian signatory is the Kharkov Institute for Physics and…
16 Jan 2017
New issue of ASDEX Upgrade newsletter
The latest newsletter from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak team in Germany reviews the improvements that were made in 2016 to the…
16 Jan 2017
ITER-like vertical stabilization system tested on EAST tokamak
At the EAST tokamak in China, five Italian scientists recently joined their Chinese colleagues to participate in a week-long experiment…
9 Jan 2017
Logistics provider DAHER to run new distribution centre
In 2012 the ITER Organization retained the European company DAHER to provide global transport, logistic and insurance services for the…
9 Jan 2017
Supercomputer in Japan used for plasma edge simulation
Precise conditions are necessary to achieve fusion reactions inside of a high-temperature plasma. In addition to raising the …
2016
16 Dec 2016
Fusion issue of "Europhysics News"
Europhysics News has produced a special issue on nuclear fusion and plasma physics (Volume 47/No 5-6, September-December 2016). The issue…
16 Dec 2016
Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award
Stefan Gerhardt (left), principal research physicist and head of experimental operations on the National Spherical Torus Experiment-Upgrade…
12 Dec 2016
Rehearsing for the big performance at JET
Even the greatest performers need rehearsals ... and JET is no exception. Scientists and engineers at the world's largest operating tokamak…
12 Dec 2016
FOM to tame the flame
The FOM Institute DIFFER, in the Netherlands, is starting a large research program to investigate one of the most fundamental…
5 Dec 2016
Basement tanks on order for Tritium Plant
The European Domestic Agency for ITER has awarded a contract to Equipos Nucleares SA (ENSA, Spain) for the supply of two holding tanks and…
5 Dec 2016
Walking through JET's vacuum vessel
For the first time in twenty years, a tokamak will experiment with nuclear plasmas. Ian Chapman, the recently appointed UKAEA Chief…
28 Nov 2016
WEST in starting monoblocks
After four years of non-stop work, the French tokamak Tore Supra has now become WEST,the tungsten (W) Environment Steady-state…
28 Nov 2016
Well-earned pause in activity for the JET tokamak
The 2015-2016 experimental campaign at the JET tokamak, Europe's flagship device, came to an end on 15 November with nearly all goals met,…
21 Nov 2016
Quadrillions of calculations per second for fusion
The Radiation Transport Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has won a prestigious award through the US DOE Innovative and Novel…
14 Nov 2016
First deliveries for centralized piping procurement
Less than one year ago, last December, the ITER Organization signed a large supply contract with W. Schulz GmbH in Germany for the…