Kijung Jung, previously Deputy Director General of ITER Korea, has succeeded Gyung-Su Lee as Director General of ITER Korea following GS Lee's appointment as President of the National Fusion Research ...

In Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 science-fiction movie starring Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence, a medical team and their submarine are miniaturized to the size of a human cell and injected into a ...

They will be big, very big: The two cranes that will one day help to assemble the main tokamak components such as the vacuum vessel segments and the toroidal coils to form the nine tokamak sectors, ...

ITER's nuclear safety control electronics have undergone a series of tests in order to demonstrate that they can continue to perform their functions flawlessly even in the case of a seismic event.

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 ...

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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, ...

In the past weeks, two superconducting tokamaks—EAST in China and WEST in France—have announced new performance records. What relevance to ITER?

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...