US ITER is a DOE Office of Science project managed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
To honor the contributions of industry to ITER, the ITER Organization has developed a “wall of industry” for the headquarters building. Contracts placed by all seven ITER members (China, European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States) plus the ITER Organization are represented in the installation. US ITER alone has placed over 700 […]
The plasma physics division of the American Physical Society (APS) held its 66th annual meeting from October 7-11 in Atlanta, Georgia. This venue provided an ideal opportunity to inform the U.S. fusion community about the proposed new ITER baseline and Research Plan and to engage with them in scientific discussions. “It’s important for the US ITER project and international ITER […]
A high-resolution drone view of the 100-acre ITER site in southern France shows progress across the facility as of June 2024. Now that civil construction is complete, most activities such as installation and commissioning of hardware systems are occurring inside the buildings. Read the full story (and read updates on each of the numbered areas […]
On April 11, 2024, the third central solenoid module was successfully lifted and positioned in the ITER assembly hall on top of the existing two-module stack. A 325-millimetre offset provides room for equipment and connection work to be completed before the module is placed in its final position, aligned on the central solenoid axis. The next […]
In one corner of the ITER Assembly Hall, work has started on the second of the six central solenoid modules. Once all six modules are stacked one on top of another, they will form the 18-meter-tall, 1,000-tonne ITER central solenoid.
As of July 2023, three of the needed six central solenoid modules have been delivered to the ITER site.
The component is the third of seven modules expected on site.
The first two diagnostic port plug structures will be sent to ITER Domestic Agencies to be equipped with diagnostics and other hardware.
Experts from the ITER Members met for two days in February 2023 at ITER Headquarters to share the latest technological developments in the design of the ITER disruption mitigation system.
The first sequence of central solenoid assembly will be to install the three lower modules on top of the key blocks.