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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

US ITER and supplier General Atomics have finished testing the sixth and final module required for the 18-metre-tall superconducting magnet at the heart of ITER. Only a seventh module, to be used as a ...

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 tool not only helps find problems, but it also helps find solutions, by making it easy to determine what needs to be corrected. “Once you get the location, you can go back to your office and ...

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 ...

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 ...