Of Interest archive

2018

30 Nov 2018

Wendelstein 7-X: new stellarator record

The stellarator fusion device Wendelstein 7-X achieved record results during its three-month experimental campaign in 2018, reports the Max…
26 Nov 2018

All about ITER staffing

You might wonder how many people are employed by the ITER Organization. Or how the staff pool breaks down in terms of hiring category,…
26 Nov 2018

Plasma edge research with supercomputer

The fastest supercomputer in the world, Summit (launched earlier this year at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US) …
26 Nov 2018

Call for nominations: Miya-Abdou Award

For the ninth time, the International Standing Committee for the International Symposium on Fusion Nuclear Technology (ISFNT) has published…
26 Nov 2018

Italy's new fusion test facility: calling out to industry

The Divertor Tokamak Test facility (DTT) is a new Italian fusion project that aims to address one of the major challenges identified in the…
19 Nov 2018

Four large transformers expected on Friday

Another Highly Exceptional Load (HEL) passes through the six-kilometre-long channel (the Canal de Caronte) that leads from the…
19 Nov 2018

EAST tokamak pushes past 100 million °C

The Chinese Academy of Sciences has reported that the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) at the Institute of Plasma…
12 Nov 2018

£20 million additional funding for UK fusion

The UK government has pledged to provide an additional £20m in 2019-20 to the UK Atomic Energy Agency (UKAEA), the public body responsible…
12 Nov 2018

37-second plasma marks WEST's first milestone

Thirty-seven seconds might seem like a very short duration—but not for a plasma, and even less for a plasma produced by a machine that is…
12 Nov 2018

Breaking news: first component installed next week

In the third week of November, the ITER Organization will be installing the first component of the machine in the basement of the …
12 Nov 2018

Control panel in Russia allows remote participation on world tokamaks

At the Troitsk Institute for Innovative and Fusion Research (Moscow region), specialists have established a unique remote control…
29 Oct 2018

PPPL: New interim deputy director for operations

Rich Hawryluk—who was Deputy Director-General for the Administration Department at the ITER Organization from 2011 to 2013—has been…
29 Oct 2018

Next ITER Business Forum in March

The 2019 edition of the ITER Business Forum will be held in the French city of Antibes from 26 to 28 March. Organized by Agence Iter France…
22 Oct 2018

£50 million MAST upgrade concludes

Five years of construction work to upgrade the spherical tokamak MAST (UK) have been brought to a close and experiments are set to…
18 Oct 2018

Sky News: Where the energy of our fossil-fuel-free future is taking shape

Follow Sky News presenter Thomas Moore as he explores the promise, the science, and the construction of the "world's largest science…
18 Oct 2018

Al Jazeera reports on ITER

Can ITER be the answer to the world's energy needs? A team from Al Jazeera Paris came on site in October to find out. After descending into…
8 Oct 2018

Take a spin on the virtual ITER worksite

Want to see what the ITER platform will look like when all the buildings are complete? Check (and play with) this spectacular 3D model…
1 Oct 2018

UK fusion centre/university collaborating on materials

As part of an investment made last year by the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) to launch a fusion technology platform at the Culham…
27 Sep 2018

A fusion powered future?

In the latest edition of Fusion in Europe, young volunteer writers imagine what a future with fusion might look at. Download the…
24 Sep 2018

Carlos Alejaldre appointed Director General of CIEMAT

On 21 September, Carlos Alejaldre, who was an ITER Organization Deputy-Director-General from 2006 to 2015, was appointed Director…