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 ...

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

Testing tritium breeding has been a major ITER mission since the start, as captured in the “Final Report of the ITER Engineering Design Activities” (IAEA/ITEREDA/DS/21), the technical foundation of ...

When work begins to weld ITER’s nine vacuum vessel sectors into a single plasma chamber, different machines will be deployed to perform tasks such as verifying the welds are structurally sound or ...

After the successful lift of tokamak sector module #1 at the end of July, focus has shifted to the next-in-line: sector module #9. Each of the tokamak’s nine modules has three main elements—a vacuum ...

The Private Sector Fusion Engagement (PSFE) project was launched in November 2024 to foster collaboration between the ITER project and private sector fusion initiatives worldwide. It emphasizes the ...

ITER’s vacuum vessel is a large metallic structure designed to provide the first confinement, stabilize the fusion plasma and support the blanket and divertor systems. Its mechanical design is driven ...

Four sector modules are now in the ITER tokamak pit. Vacuum vessel sector module #8 (left, with rigging still attached) was installed in an overnight operation from 28 to 29 January 2026.

Under the editorial lead of EUROfusion, the ITER Engineering Basis Handbook delivers a stand-alone compilation of ITER design principles, the underlying technical design basis and its evolution from ...