The toroidal field coil procurement effort has been one of the longest of the ITER program, initiated by Procurement Arrangements signed in 2007 and 2008. Manu[...]
In 1986 Jean-Louis Etienne set out for the North Pole alone, on foot, from Ward Hunt Island in the extreme north of Canada—a voyage across the frozen Artic Oce[...]
The D-shaped coil that is presently attached to the right wing of sub-assembly tool #1 (SSAT-1) was the first to be delivered to ITER in April 2020. Manufactur[...]
Fifty years ago, in 1964, human beings believed in progress. Manned space capsules were routinely sent into space, a revolutionary supersonic commercial airlin[...]
Men of the Iron Age, long before the term was coined, accidently discovered that by adding a bit of carbon to molten iron, a harder and more durable metal was [...]
The smallest of ITER's six ring-shaped poloidal field coils has passed all factory acceptance tests in Russia. The next step is shipment to the ITER site. [...]
Fusion is about harnessing Nature's most powerful energy source: the fabulous forces that are liberated when two light atoms merge into a heavier one. The [...]
It's a long way from Hazira, on the northwestern coast of India, to the ITER construction site in southern France. And it's also a long way from the first segm[...]