With the completion this autumn of a multiyear campaign to repair key tokamak components, ITER is closing a difficult chapter ...

The second testing campaign has been completed at the magnet cold test facility with one of ITER’s 330-tonne, D-shaped toroidal field coils demonstrating robust performance after being cooled to 4 K ...

Aparajita Mukherjee joined the Institute for Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, in 1991 as a research scholar after obtaining her master’s degree in physics from Jadavpur University. Her initial research ...

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 ...

Positioned at the bottom of the vacuum vessel, the divertor is designed to exhaust heat, helium ash and other impurities from the plasma. Its plasma-facing components—the inner vertical target (Europe ...

ITER Public-Private Fusion Workshops bring together actors from across the public and private fusion communities to strengthen collaboration across the global fusion ecosystem. For the fourth edition ...

Radial beams are temporary lifting tools that support and stabilize sector modules weighing more than 1,000 tonnes as they are lifted from Assembly Hall tooling and lowered into the tokamak pit. After ...

Peer-reviewed academic journals play an essential role in advancing science by providing a rigorous, independent process for evaluating and disseminating research. Published by the International ...

ITER news digest for the period of 12 October 2026 to 19 October 2026. Wendelstein 7-X: new experimental campaign underway Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X stellarator began a new experimental campaign in ...

Last week, the north entrance of the ITER construction site was officially opened including the necessary security infrastructure. Currently we have about 300 people on site, but at peak construction ...

Figure 1. Simulation JOREK de l’évolution du profil de température du plasma après l’injection de glaçons fragmentés destinés à atténuer une disruption [D. Hu et al 2024 Nucl. Fusion 64 086005]. Comme ...