SECONDMENT PROCESS In the framework of the ITER Project, foreign companies based outside France may need to temporarily second their employees to France to work on the ITER site as prime contractors ...

The new baseline replaces the plan that had been used as a reference since 2016, and which for some time had been publicly acknowledged to be no longer "feasible, practical or optimal." The major ...

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 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 ...

If you know a little about tokamaks, you can probably picture their gleaming metal interiors and even imagine a cloud of spinning plasma. But what is it really like inside an operating tokamak? What ...

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 ...

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Bernard Bigot passed away in the early hours of Saturday 14 May 2022. Up until his last week, as he fought the disease that was to claim him, he marshalled the strength to take the decisions that ...

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 ...

The cold test facility will be located in the partially vacated poloidal field coil winding facility. Supercritical helium at 4 K will be delivered by way of a cryogenic auxiliary cold box (blue) ...

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 ...

EAST's futuristic control room, where the ITER experiments were run from 18 to 26 January at an "eye-watering pace." Six boronization processes and more than 400 tokamak pulses were executed during ...