Des pièces d'acier hautes comme un immeuble de quatre étages et pesant plusieurs centaines de tonnes qui s'ajustent avec une précision inférieure au quart de millimètre, c'est un exploit industriel.

In Tallahassee, in the state of Florida, holes in the ground aren't usually good news for construction projects. They could be a sign of the gopher tortoise—one of the oldest living species of ...

Plus lourd que trois Tour Eiffel, aussi haut que la voûte de l'Arc de Triomphe, le tokamak ITER est un instrument scientifique de très haute précision. L'assemblage de ce prodigieux Meccano, à partir ...

The size and weight of the major components, the tiny tolerances and careful handling required for the assembly of huge and unique systems, the diversity of manufacturers, the tight schedule, complex ...

Qualitatively, the Q of ITER signifies the achievement of a "burning plasma"—a state of matter that has never been produced on Earth and that will usher in a new era of fusion research. In a burning ...

JET—the Joint European Torus*, used by 4,800 EUROfusion consortium experts, students and staff from across Europe—has set a world record for the most energy produced in a single fusion shot, ...

A CAD rendering of the HRNS diagnostic system located in the port cell of an equatorial port (#01). The system's four neutron spectrometers are installed within two large shielding enclosures (opened ...

The transfer of sector module #7 to the tokamak assembly pit, on Thursday 10 April, was many things in one. Hailed as a “record performance” by ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi, considered a ...

It's not Lego, but it is definitely "hands-on." To offer a tangible device to illustrate the workings of magnetic confinement fusion in a tokamak, the ITER Organization has worked with the Hungarian ...

US ITER and supplier General Atomics have finished testing the sixth and final module required for the 18-metre-tall superconducting magnet at the heart of ITER. Only a seventh module, to be used as a ...

Two sector modules in two months! Following the insertion of the first of nine vacuum vessel sector modules in April, the assembly teams successfully transferred a second on 17-18 June. The complete ...

On 20 January, EAST plasma shot #150425 became the first to break the barrier of 1,000 seconds in steady-state high-confinement mode operating with a W divertor and lithium injection. Maintaining ...