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.

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 ...

As delegates from three continents convened on ITER Headquarters for the 36th Meeting of the ITER Council, construction teams were exiting the tokamak assembly theatre after a long night of work. The ...

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 ...

In 2024 alone, private fusion companies collectively spent USD 434 million on supply chain procurement, nearly double the previous year’s total, according to a recent report by the Fusion Industry ...

A cold test facility for ITER magnets is being set up in the former Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility, where the gantry crane that transported late-stage poloidal field coil assemblies can be ...

Experimental steps towards Q ≥ 10 in the new baseline ITER Research Plan using deuterium-deuterium (DD) and deuterium-tritium (DT) plasmas in order to minimize neutron fluence in DT-1. Full arrows ...

Wendelstein 7-X—the leading fusion device of the stellarator type—achieved several new performance milestones during its latest run of experiments. Among them is a world record for triple product, the ...

In January 2025, the Coordinating Committee of the International Tokamak Physics Activity made the formal decision to open its coordinated research activities to privately funded initiatives.

The power supply system is a vital part of electron cyclotron heating and current drive—the system at ITER designed for plasma initiation, heating, and control. Tests are underway now to prepare the ...

One-third of the way through EXPO 2025, the visitor numbers are strong. Some 7,818,321 people have marveled at the extravagant architecture of the 188 pavilions that showcase cultural identity, ...

On 4 June, the Cooperation Agreement between the ITER Organization and the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC RK), originally signed in 2017, was officially extended another ...