The ITER platform has all the attributes of a small town. It has landmark buildings, winding roads and large avenues, traffic lights and stop signs. It is a bustling world of people and vehicles, of ...

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 ...

ITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today.

Presented to the ITER Council in June 2024, the proposed Baseline 2024 prioritizes the start of substantial research operation as rapidly as possible. With a divertor, blanket shield blocks and other ...

The only source of readily available tritium comes from heavy-water fission reactors such as the CANDU type (developed by Canada in the 1950-60s, and adopted since in Romania, South Korea, and India).

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 ...

An integral part of the Swiss Plasma Center at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), TCV has a staff of about 200 researchers and students. The mission of the TCV program, ...

Figure 1. JOREK simulation of the temperature profile evolution following the injection of a shattered pellet for disruption mitigation [D. Hu et al 2024 Nucl. Fusion 64 086005] As recently announced ...

There are many species of impurities, but one of the most deleterious is oxygen, which originates from the inevitable oxidation process in the materials inside the vacuum vessel. Oxygen release into ...