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.

The site of the US jacketing facility (marked in yellow) on the premises of Tallahassee Regional Airport. The Cable Payoff Building and the Compaction and Spooling Building are at opposite ends.

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 ...

The universe is alive with burning plasmas—billions and billions of nuclear furnaces tirelessly fusing hydrogen atoms. With ITER, for the first time in the history of man, a burning plasma will be ...

Newsline readers have been following with keen interest as ITER's supersized components have been navigating the seas and reinforced roadways en route to the ITER site. Fusion enthusiasts, the ...

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, ...

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 ...

In the framework of a deepened collaboration between the Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP), China and the ITER Organization, the HL-3 tokamak has become a satellite device of ITER. A campaign ...

A sixth central solenoid module has successfully completed testing at the General Atomics Magnet Technologies Center in Poway, California.

There is a new arrival in the tokamak pit—one that upends the perception of space and volume that regular observers had become accustomed to. With the successful insertion of sector module #6 on 18 ...

DeLeah Lockridge, previously a senior R&D staff member in the Nuclear Operations and Licensing group at the United States Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has joined the ...