Of Interest archive

2022

17 Aug 2022

French YouTuber is back with a second video

The French YouTuber and scientific populizer Dimitri Ferrière, alias Monsieur Bidouille, has published a second video on the ITER Project…
4 Aug 2022

Recruiting: European agency for ITER seeks new Director

Fusion for Energy (F4E), the European Union organization managing Europe's contribution to ITER, is currently seeking to recruit a new…
25 Jul 2022

Massive increases in "private" fusion investment

Investment in private fusion companies has more than doubled in the past year and eight new companies have been founded, bringing the total…
22 Jul 2022

Gallery: 5 European sectors, different stages

In advance of the delivery of the first European vacuum vessel sector this autumn, the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy has…
18 Jul 2022

EUROfusion 2023 researcher grants open for application

Two EUROfusion grant programs aim to promote the education and training of a new generation of scientists and engineers in the fusion field…
18 Jul 2022

Women in Fusion: website to go live

Women in Fusion (WiF) is a new global platform for highlighting and encouraging the role of women in the field of fusion. This…
13 Jul 2022

New ITER video: Going deeper and deeper into virtual reality

The ITER Organization, in collaboration with colleagues from CEA Cadarache, is deploying advanced virtual reality tools that allow users to…
13 Jul 2022

FuseNet Phd Event 2022: PechaKucha and networking

The first in-person FuseNet PhD event in three years took place from 4 to 6 July in Padova, Italy, hosted by the University of Padova…
27 Jun 2022

Gyrotrons and tetrodes for fusion (Thales)

Produced by the Microwave & Imaging Sub-Systems group of the French multinational Thales, which provides electrical systems and…
20 Jun 2022

EPS Forum—where physics meets industry

The first week of June, the European Physical Society (EPS) organized the EPS Forum for the first time. The aim of the conference, which…
14 Jun 2022

2d IAEA Workshop on Fusion Enterprises

A virtual workshop organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on 11 and 12 July 2022 will bring together actors in the…
3 Jun 2022

Bottling the Sun: a CNN report on ITER and fusion

"From a small hill in the southern French region of Provence, you can see two suns. One has been blazing for four-and-a-half billion years…
30 May 2022

IAEA Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation

The Second IAEA Technical Meeting on Plasma Disruptions and their Mitigation will take place at ITER Headquarters in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance…
23 May 2022

Helium-3: why go the Moon?

Fusion can theoretically be achieved by several combinations of light elements such as hydrogen, helium or boron. However, in the present…
23 May 2022

ITER International School: pre-register before 1 June

Pre-register before 1 June 2022 for this year's ITER International School on the topic of "ITER Plasma Scenarios and Control." This in…
23 May 2022

360° tour updated (April 2022)

The virtual tour of ITER construction has been updated with 360° photos from April 2022. Enter the main ITER plant buildings, fly over the…
27 Apr 2022

New video on fusion from the Financial Times

The Financial Times channel FT Rethink produces multimedia content that focuses on "the people, technology, strategies and systems…
22 Apr 2022

Registration opens for the 2022 ITER International School

Registration is open now for the 11th ITER International School. This in-person event will be held from 25 to 29 July 2022 at the…
14 Apr 2022

The B1M construction channel visits ITER

The B1M—the world's largest, most subscribed-to video channel for construction—aims to inspire people to join the construction industry by…
11 Apr 2022

ITER Talks | The Tokamak Cooling Water System

Donato Lioce, head of ITER's Tokamak Cooling Water System Section, describes the plant system that will remove heat from the ITER machine…