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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

On Wednesday 14 January, ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi paid a visit to the installation, which is now ready to enter the commissioning phase. “We will be testing the whole range of cryogenic ...

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, ...

ITER's new augmented reality tool not only helps find problems, but it also helps find solutions, by making it easy to determine what needs to be corrected. "Issue" notifications can be generated in ...

For the 35th time, the ITER Council has convened to review the progress of the ITER project, received presentations on the progress of construction, manufacturing, assembly, and licensing during its ...

To honour these companies, ITER has developed a “wall of industry,” installed on the 5th floor corridor leading to the ITER Council room, lined with engraved metal plaques showing the companies that ...