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Mar 08, 2013 06:18 PM EST

Full-Scale Construction at ITER Fusion Reactor Visible From Above [Photo]

A new aerial view of the ITER fusion reactor construction site shows the four-hectare electrical switchyard that is in place now and ongoing construction nearly everywhere. 500 people currently work from the completed Headquarters building.

Feb 23, 2013 03:56 PM EST

Superconducting Fusion Experiment JT60-SA Assembly Started in Japan

In another small step on the long path to bring the sun's fusion fire down to Earth, the construction of the large auxiliary Tokamak JT-60SA, associated to the world's largest fusion experiment ITER, began in Japan this year.

Jan 17, 2013 05:37 PM EST

Construction Contract for ITER Fusion Reactor Signed, HQ Inaugurated

The brand-new headquarter building of the ITER fusion research program was officially inaugurated today, located right beside the gigantic fusion reactor that is currently being constructed at the site. For the occasion, the European Union's Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger and the French ...

Jan 11, 2013 08:32 PM EST

Korea signs up PPPL to help develop future K-DEMO fusion reactor

Several of the partner countries that are currently building the international experimental fusion reactor ITER, including the EU, China, Japan and India are already contemplating their own demonstration facilities as the next step toward commercial fusion power. Korea is also doing so with K-DEMO, ...

Jan 10, 2013 07:40 PM EST

US ITER fusion researchers working on plasma disruption mitigation

ITER, the world's first reactor-scale fusion machine, will have a plasma volume more than 10 times that of the next largest tokamak, JET. Which also means that problems in controlling the inherently unstable, super-heated plasma are 10 times more delicate.

Dec 28, 2012 01:51 PM EST

World's largest cryogenic plant to be installed in ITER fusion reactor

The contract for largest cryogenic plant (cryoplant) infrastructure ever built was signed in Dec 2012 by the ITER organization. The EUR 83 million Liquid Helium Plant is needed to cool the massive superconducting magnet coils, and other elements, of the experimental fusion reactor ITER.