ITER will be equipped with a cooling water system to manage the heat generated during operation of the tokamak. The internal surfaces of the vacuum vessel (first wall blanket and divertor) must be ...

One after another, governments around the world are unveiling their strategies for national programs in fusion energy. Common themes consistently emerge: significant technical challenges remain on the ...

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Two and a half years into its machine assembly phase, ITER is facing challenges common to every industrial venture involving first-of-a-kind components. "There is no scandal here," says ITER ...

In the West, scientists were founding their expectations on machines such as the Perhapstron in the US or Zeta (Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly) in the United-Kingdom—machines that used strong ...

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In operation since the 1980s, the DIII-D tokamak is the largest magnetic fusion research facility in the United States. Operated by General Atomics for the US Department of Energy, it played an ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a tokamak device, the divertor is the component at the base of the plasma chamber that extracts heat and ash produced by the fusion reaction, minimizes plasma contamination, and protects the ...

A tower crane glides silently on rails, its manipulator arm supporting a 4.5-tonne blanket shield block. The crane stops and pivots toward the outboard wall of the vacuum vessel mockup, then stands ...

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 ...