Tough Stuff: US ITER electronics will stand up to ITER’s extremes
ITER, a machine that will imitate the sun, will also mimic the sun’s extreme environment: intense heat, strong magnetic fields and radiation.
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First-of-a kind superconducting magnet en route to ITER site
The first of six superconducting magnet modules for the ITER central solenoid left General Atomics’ Magnet Technologies Center in Poway, California for the ITER site in France.
Strong bonds: MPEX magnet system benefits from US ITER expertise
As Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX) prepares for the start of fabrication, ORNL’s Phil Ferguson credits US ITER staff for sharing hard-earned expertise to help jump-start the design of the MPEX superconducting magnet system.
Central solenoid structures and assembly tooling team innovates to get the job done
Like many other ITER staff around the world, US ITER senior project engineer Travis Reagan did not expect to spend most of 2020 working remotely.
First central solenoid module gets clean bill of health
After enduring a battery of rigorous tests, the first of seven (six plus 1 spare) superconducting magnet modules that will make up the heart of the ITER international fusion reactor earned a clean bill of health.
US ITER team preps design of first-of-a-kind real-time plasma diagnostic
As the first phase of ITER tokamak assembly begins, the US ITER diagnostics team is busy preparing the systems essential for first plasma.
US ITER ready for high-power microwave transmission line fabrication after completing final design
After several years of design analysis, prototyping and strict attention to complex structural demands, the US ITER electron cyclotron heating line team completed a final design review of transmission lines for the microwave plasma heating system. The team is now preparing for initial fabrication contracts. “Our thermal mechanical analysis at the system and component level […]
KSTAR joins an exclusive club: Tandem shattered pellet injectors now in testing for disruption mitigation
–Adriana Ghiozzi for US ITER First-of-a-kind experiments have begun at the KSTAR tokamak in Daejeon, South Korea, where two new shattered pellet injectors were installed in October and December. The tandem use of shattered pellet injectors installed at opposite sides of the machine is a first for the technology, which was developed and fabricated at […]
Delivery Begins of Lower Support Components for the “Heart of ITER”
Lower key blocks for the central solenoid are now being delivered to the ITER site
First US Components Installed in Tokamak Complex
Three drain tanks were the first US-supplied components installed in the ITER tokamak complex this past weekend. Two more US-provided drain tanks will be installed later in the construction sequence. The drain tanks are part of the tokamak cooling water system, which will serve as the primary cooling system for the ITER machine. During operation, the […]