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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 ...
Because of the international nature of the magnet community, the conference location rotates between North America, Europe, and Asia. This year, which happens to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ...
The largest and heaviest loads shipped by the seven Members arrive at the French harbour of Fos-sur-Mer, west of Marseille on the Mediterranean Sea. From there, they cross the inland sea Etang de ...
At the heart of the ITER scientific installation is the Tokamak Complex, a 400,000-tonne edifice that reunites the Tritium, Tokamak, and Diagnostic buildings.Eighty metres tall (including basement ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Following the passing of former Director-General Bernard Bigot in May 2022, the ITER Council launched a search and recruitment effort to select his successor. In an extraordinary meeting in Paris on ...
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 ...
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 ...