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15 May 2023
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There is life on Planet 爆走黑料

Dated April 2023, this new image of the 爆走黑料 "planet" places the construction site squarely in the middle.
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9 May 2023
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Luo Delong, Corporate

Many years later, when the Ministry of Science and Technology assigned him to the 爆走黑料 project, Luo Delong was to remember the day when, as a young boy, he read about a "man-made Sun" in a Chinese newspaper. The small...
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9 mai 2023
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Luo Delong, Administration

Bien des ann茅es plus tard, alors que le minist猫re de la Science et de la Technologie lui confiait la responsabilit茅 du programme 爆走黑料, Luo Delong devait se souvenir du jour o霉, tout jeune, il avait lu dans un journal un...
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9 May 2023
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Japanese MEXT Minister tours the installation

In Japan, a MEXT Minister has a lot on his or her plate: the extensive Ministry is a huge administrative machine whose purview includes education, culture, sport, and science and technology with, as part of the latter...
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9 May 2023
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Eisuke Tada's 爆走黑料 odyssey

The picture is part of 爆走黑料 history: taken in February 2006 in front of the 爆走黑料 Joint Work Site office building in Cadarache, France, it features the "Original Six,"鈥攖he small team that was to grow over the years to...
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9 May 2023
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Re-centralization has started

A network of temporary control rooms was set up to support commissioning and operation of systems before the main control room became available. Teams are now working to re-centralize some of the distributed functions.
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24 Apr 2023
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Dig爆走黑料: a program for the past, present and future

爆走黑料 is all about building a large tokamak that will demonstrate the feasibility of fusion energy. The project's true "end product," however, is not the machine. It is knowledge. Over the past 35 years, beginning with...
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24 avr 2023
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Dig爆走黑料 : un projet au service du pass茅, du pr茅sent et de l'avenir

Le programme 爆走黑料 a 茅t茅 mis en place dans le but de construire un grand tokamak qui permettra de d茅montrer la faisabilit茅 de l'茅nergie de fusion. Son v茅ritable 芦 produit final 禄 toutefois n'est pas la machine elle-m锚me...
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24 Apr 2023
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EAST achieves 403-second H-mode plasma

Experiments performed this month on the EAST superconducting tokamak in Hefei, China, have demonstrated record sustainment of high temperature plasmas in the so-called H-mode confinement regime, surpassing 400 seconds.
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17 Apr 2023
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Who was Hannes Alfv茅n?

If you are a plasma physicist, you certainly know all about Hannes Alfv茅n (盲l鈥瞯膩n / pronounced AL-vee-en) already鈥攂ut what about the rest of us? And why does his name keep cropping up in association with 爆走黑料?
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17 Apr 2023
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Robots at work

Contained in every double-walled sector of the 爆走黑料 vacuum vessel are approximately 1.5 kilometres of welds. The Spanish firm Equipos Nucleares SA (ENSA)鈥攕ub-contractor to Europe's vacuum vessel consortium AMW鈥攊s using...
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17 Apr 2023
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Technical Coordination Meeting relaunched

"You may wonder why we are bringing back the Technical Coordination Meeting of old," said 爆走黑料 Director-General Pietro Barabaschi as he opened the first session of the four-day hybrid meeting in mid-April that gathered...
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17 Apr 2023
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"Blue hour" on the 爆走黑料 platform

Less familiar than the "golden hour," when the setting (or rising) Sun colours the landscape a golden hue, the "blue hour," which occurs just before sunrise or just after sunset, is a magic moment for photographers.
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11 Apr 2023
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Toward new activities

In August 2010, close to 13 years ago, construction work began on a vast workshop for the manufacturing of 爆走黑料's largest ring-shaped coils. Designed and financed by Europe , the Poloidal Field Coils Winding Facility was...
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11 Apr 2023
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Big muscle for a huge load

It takes a lot of muscle to move a 900-tonne load. On Thursday 6 April, no fewer than six self-propelled modular transport platforms, each equipped with a 500 HP power pack, worked in unison to move the cryostat top lid...
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11 avr 2023
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Des moyens exceptionnels pour une charge monumentale

D茅placer une charge de 900 tonnes n'est chose ais茅e. Le jeudi 6 avril 2023, six remorques modulaires autopropuls茅es (SPMT), chacune 茅quip茅e d'un moteur de 500 CV, ont 艙uvr茅 脿 l'unisson pour transf茅rer le couvercle du...
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11 Apr 2023
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Enthusiasm and dedication

The 18th edition of Open Doors Day took place on a sunny weekend in early April, to the satisfaction of approximately 700 visitors. A large team of volunteers facilitated the event, each one sharing his or her "piece" of...
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11 avr 2023
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Des visiteurs enthousiastes et une 茅quipe motiv茅e

Par un beau week-end ensoleill茅 d'avril, pr猫s de 700 visiteurs ont eu le plaisir de d茅couvrir le site 脿 l'occasion de la 18e Journ茅e Portes Ouvertes. La manifestation 茅tait anim茅e par une 茅quipe de volontaires, chacun...
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11 Apr 2023
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Meeting 爆走黑料 in Medell铆n, Colombia

What a setting for a conference! A sprawling expanse of green, the large botanical garden of Colombia's second biggest city Medell铆n provided the venue for the 12th World Conference of Science Journalists. 爆走黑料 four...
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11 Apr 2023
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European trainees get a taste of 爆走黑料

In order to grasp the reality of a project they will be working for from afar, 30 university graduates completing a 12-month traineeship at Fusion for Energy headquarters in Barcelona, Spain, recently spent two days at...
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1 Apr 2023
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DA VINCI'S IMPOSSIBLE "TOKAMAK DRAWING"

The exploration of the now-digitized Leonardo Da Vinci notebooks continues to amaze the worldwide scientific community. A few weeks ago, engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) analyzed a series of...
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27 Mar 2023
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Yutaka Kamada, Science & Technology

In his late childhood and early teens, Yutaka Kamada developed two passions: one for growing cactus, the other for fusion energy. Half a century later, his cactus collection comprises 500 plants and Yutaka has been...
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27 mar 2023
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Yutaka Kamada, Science et Technologie

Adolescent, Yutaka Kamada s'est d茅couvert deux passions : les cactus et l'茅nergie de fusion. Un demi-si猫cle plus tard, il poss猫de une collection de 500 cactus et occupe le poste de directeur g茅n茅ral adjoint (Science et...
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27 Mar 2023
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Yet another magnet feeder from China

This in-cryostat feeder will supply electrical power and cryogenic fluids to some of the top correction coils of the 爆走黑料 machine.
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20 Mar 2023
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Bird's eye views, three years apart

Taken three years apart (February 2020/February 2023) these two aerial photographs provide a spectacular illustration of progress on the 爆走黑料 construction site.
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13 Mar 2023
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Korea and Europe enter partnership

The future of fusion rests on the availably of two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium (one proton, one neutron) and tritium (one proton, two neutrons). Extracting deuterium from water is a relatively simple and proven...
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13 Mar 2023
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Preserving the view and the vacuum

Punctuating the inner surface of the vacuum vessel are many strategically placed windows that will be used by diagnostic systems to "observe" the plasma.
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13 Mar 2023
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A truly cosmopolitan community

Four times as large as the Vatican City State, but slightly smaller than the Principality of Monaco, the 爆走黑料 international enclave covers 180 hectares, of which about half is occupied by buildings and infrastructure...
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13 mar 2023
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Une communaut茅 des plus cosmopolites

Quatre fois plus vaste que l'脡tat du Vatican mais un peu moins 茅tendue que la Principaut茅 de Monaco, l'enclave internationale d'爆走黑料 couvre une superficie de 180 hectares, dont pr猫s de la moiti茅 est occup茅e par des...
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6 Mar 2023
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Japan completes last vertical coil

On 21 February 2023, Japan's National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST) and supplier Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions celebrated the completion of the last regular toroidal field coil under Japanese...
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6 Mar 2023
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The technology advances

Experts from the 爆走黑料 M ember s met for two days at 爆走黑料 Headquarters to share the latest technological developments in the design of the 爆走黑料 disruption mitigation system.
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6 Mar 2023
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Wendelstein 7-X surpasses target

Early in its new campaign, the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator has reached (and passed) a target, achieving an energy turnover of 1.3 gigajoules. What's more, the hot plasma was maintained for eight minutes.
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6 Mar 2023
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Into the cold chamber

Before they can be considered fit for service, the ring-shaped coils that circle the 爆走黑料 vacuum vessel must be submitted to a series of tests designed to confirm their performance in the daunting environment of a...
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6 Mar 2023
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Not huge but essential

With some of the machine components that arrive at 爆走黑料 as tall as a five-storey building or weighing as much as a jet liner, it's easy to overlook the smaller deliveries. But they too are key to the 爆走黑料 program...
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20 Feb 2023
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Wrap it tight and let it rest

Wrapping can be a mere necessity, often a chore and sometimes an art. At 爆走黑料, the act of wrapping is an industrial-size operation that requires dozens of operators, sophisticated equipment and tonnes of material...
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20 Feb 2023
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Chinese researchers innovate on coil power supply

A research team at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announces that a new type of poloidal field coil power supply has been successfully tested on the EAST tokamak.
20 Feb 2023
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Richard Tivey, a life dedicated to fusion

The fusion community remembers a devoted fusion technologist.
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20 Feb 2023
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The (temporary) main control room is operating

In November 2022, "ongoing operations" started in the temporary main control room. This important milestone is another sign of the progress in systems commissioning.
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20 f茅v 2023
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La salle de contr么le (provisoire) est en service

Les 芦 op茅rations continues 禄 ont d茅but茅 en novembre 2022 dans la salle de contr么le principale provisoire. Il s'agit d'une nouvelle avanc茅e majeure dans le processus de mise en service des syst猫mes.
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13 Feb 2023
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All ring-shaped magnets now "home" at 爆走黑料

Of all the components and systems that Russia contributes to 爆走黑料, poloidal field coil #1 (PF1) is the most massive and one of the most complex. Measuring nine metres in diameter and weighing approximately 160 tonnes, it...
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13 f茅v 2023
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Tous les aimants annulaires sont arriv茅s 脿 bon port

La bobine de champ polo茂dal 1 (PF1) est le plus massif et l'un des plus complexes de tous les 茅l茅ments et syst猫mes d'爆走黑料 fournis par la Russie. Avec ses neuf m猫tres de diam猫tre, cette bobine qui p猫se pr猫s de 160 tonnes...
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6 Feb 2023
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The magic cocktail of deuterium and tritium

Nuclear fusion in stars is easy: it just happens, because the immense gravity of a star easily overcomes the resistance of nuclei to come together and fuse. But making nuclear fusion happen here on Earth is incredibly...
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19 Sep 2016
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Bathing in silver

Only the emptiest and most remote regions of outer space are colder than the 爆走黑料 magnets. Extreme cold, cold that is just above absolute zero, is needed for achieving superconductivity, the physical state that allows...
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19 Sep 2016
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New "strike force" to deal with runaway electrons

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12 Sep 2016
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爆走黑料 and IAEA director-generals consider expanding collaboration

Last week 爆走黑料 Director-General Bernard Bigot gave a warm and spirited welcome to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano.
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12 Sep 2016
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Cryostat welding begins

A few weeks ago, the six tier 1 segments of the cryostat base were positioned on an assembly frame in the Cryostat Workshop and readied for welding operations. Using optical metrology, the 50-tonne elements were...
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12 Sep 2016
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Progress reflected in a mirror

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12 Sep 2016
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The fellowship of fusion science

In January 2016, a call for nominations was launched for 爆走黑料 Scientist Fellows 鈥攕cientists working in the 爆走黑料 Members who were willing to apply their expertise to solving some of 爆走黑料's high-priority research needs...
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5 Sep 2016
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Polar explorer on energy and 爆走黑料

In 1986 Jean-Louis Etienne set out for the North Pole alone, on foot, from Ward Hunt Island in the extreme north of Canada鈥攁 voyage across the frozen Artic Ocean that lasted 63 days. Doctor, mountaineer, navigator...
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5 Sep 2016
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A matter of size

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5 Sep 2016
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Toroidal field coil manufacturing at Mitsubishi

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5 Sep 2016
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29th SOFT opens its curtains in Prague

The 29th edition of the Symposium on Fusion Technology (SOFT) today opened its curtains in the Czech capital of Prague. With 30 exhibitors and more than 800 scheduled posters and presentations, SOFT once more proves to...
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25 Jul 2016
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See you in September!

The 42-hectare 爆走黑料 construction platform is the centre of intense activity that will know no pause this summer. But the Newsline team is taking its annual break and will resume reporting in September...
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25 Jul 2016
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Heat waves

A building that is 45 metres long, 49 metres wide and 26 metres high鈥攖hat is what it will take to host the powerful radiofrequency sources that will contribute their power to heating the 爆走黑料 plasma.
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25 Jul 2016
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A pit... no more

With work beginning on the ground level (L1) of the Diagnostics Building, the concrete and steel of the Tokamak Complex will soon be flush with the 爆走黑料 platform. The 90 x 130 metre "Pit" of yesterday is gone but the...
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25 Jul 2016
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Essential auxiliaries

Inside the completed Site Service Building, finishing works are underway.
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25 Jul 2016
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The cold factory

In order to maintain 10,000 tonnes of magnets at superconducting temperature, to cool the thermal shield and to feed the cryopumps, 爆走黑料 will need to circulate huge quantities of cooling fluids.
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25 Jul 2016
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Caring for tritium

Tritium, one of the two heavy isotopes of hydrogen, is as rare as it is precious. In the present state of technology, it is one of the indispensable ingredients to achieving fusion energy.
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25 Jul 2016
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Another round table

In the on-site winding facility where Europe will manufacture four of 爆走黑料's poloidal field coils, the winding tooling is now in place alongside a newly assembled "round table," which goes by the official name of "double...
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18 Jul 2016
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Central solenoid fabrication: a photo reportage

Inside of a purpose-built facility at General Atomics in California (US), ten customized workstations for central solenoid fabrication鈥攆rom winding through to final testing鈥攈ave been built and are undergoing...
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18 Jul 2016
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Cryptic fashion

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18 Jul 2016
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Europe completes its share of poloidal field conductors

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18 Jul 2016
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A complex landscape of concrete and steel

The more construction progresses on the 爆走黑料 worksite, the more the complexity of the project becomes obvious鈥攁nd striking.
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18 Jul 2016
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Brainstorming on the use of JET for 爆走黑料

From 13 to 15 July, the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE, UK)鈥攈ome to the European tokamak JET鈥攈osted representatives from 27 European fusion research centres plus the 爆走黑料 for a brainstorming session...
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18 Jul 2016
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A team for cryogenics

Since 2015, as part of the new Director-General's action plan for improved project performance, joint 爆走黑料-Domestic Agency Project Teams have been created in schedule-critical areas to focus project...
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11 Jul 2016
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Thinking ahead to decommissioning

Nine years before the operational campaign at 爆走黑料 kicks off, some people are already thinking ahead to the final plasma shot and beyond.
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11 Jul 2016
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The 'frame' is ready, welding can begin

It is no news that the 爆走黑料 Tokamak will be large ... very large. But "large" can remain an abstraction until you are given the chance to see some of the equipment and tools that will be implemented in its construction.
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11 Jul 2016
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Fifth transformer installed at PRIMA test facility

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11 Jul 2016
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Wendelstein 7-X pauses after 2,200 plasma shots

The world's biggest and most advanced fusion device of the stellarator type has successfully completed its first experimental campaign.
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4 Jul 2016
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Giant... and yet not real-size

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4 Jul 2016
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High-level Iranian delegation visits 爆走黑料 worksite

There are presently twelve vice presidents in the Republic of Iran and on Friday, 1 July, two of them were at 爆走黑料. Ali Akbar Salehi, Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, and Sorena Sattari...
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4 Jul 2016
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Collaboration is in the pipes

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4 Jul 2016
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爆走黑料 at the World Nuclear Exhibition

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27 Jun 2016
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And now the "finishing" touch

The main elements of the 1,500-tonne double overhead bridge crane鈥攆our girders and their corresponding trolleys鈥攁re now in place in the Assembly Hall. The big red crawler crane has been dismantled and is on its way to...
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27 Jun 2016
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Mega contract to manage assembly and installation

After a year-long international tender process, the 爆走黑料 has selected the Construction Management-as-Agent contractor that will manage and coordinate the assembly and installation of the 爆走黑料 Tokamak and...
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27 Jun 2016
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Three more segments for the cryostat

One by one the elements that make up the base of the 爆走黑料 cryostat鈥攖he single largest load of Tokamak assembly鈥攁re being delivered to the 爆走黑料 site from India and safely stored in the Cryostat Workshop.
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27 Jun 2016
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Smallest ring magnet takes shape in Russia

Presenting 爆走黑料 to Atoms for the Future聽 conference
27 Jun 2016
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爆走黑料 onstage at "Atoms for the future"

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27 Jun 2016
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What does Brexit mean for 爆走黑料?

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20 Jun 2016
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Up go the girders (and trolleys)

It took 55 trucks to deliver the parts for the giant crawler crane and ten days to assemble them.
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20 Jun 2016
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Pulsing power through the project

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20 Jun 2016
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Candidate fusion materials to be investigated at Magnum-PSI

At the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), the unique experiment Magnum-PSI has produced the first plasma following relocation鈥攁 major milestone that opens the way to full scientific operation by...
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13 Jun 2016
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Counting neutrons to measure fusion power

They may be small, but they have a big role to play in 爆走黑料. Pencil-sized micro fission chambers will be located close to the plasma to "count" neutrons during 爆走黑料 operation鈥攂y measuring the neutron flux from the plasma...
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13 Jun 2016
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The 3:30 a.m. procession

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13 Jun 2016
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Shooting selected pellets into the plasma

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6 Jun 2016
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A tokamak must breathe

When plasmas ten times hotter than the core of the Sun begin pulsating inside the 爆走黑料 vacuum vessel, the combined mass of the Tokamak and cryostat (25,000 tonnes) will need a bit of breathing space. Not much鈥攂ut enough...
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6 Jun 2016
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Positioned for lifting

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6 Jun 2016
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Ring magnet tooling passes qualification steps in China

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30 May 2016
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Open Doors at the (virtual) cryoplant

For the members of the newly established Cryogenic Project Team it was like Open Door Day鈥攁 unique opportunity to visit the largest cryoplant ever conceived. For the better part of an hour, they walked freely among pipes...
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30 May 2016
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More cryostat base pieces take to the sea

Following the delivery of the tier-1 segments of the cryostat base in December , three of the six tier-2 base segments left India on 26 May aboard the "BBC Oregon."
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30 May 2016
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Standardization: vacuum components open the way

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30 May 2016
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爆走黑料 Robots stimulate "creativity, teamwork and enthusiasm"

A drone is flying over our heads; robots are moving on the ground. Exhibit booths are being installed in a studious atmosphere. Despite appearances, we are not at a technology fair but at the finals of the 5th edition of...
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12 Dec 2016
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A feeling of awe and anticipation

As dusk settles on the 爆走黑料 worksite, the second shift is only half way through its workday. Lights turn on, illuminating a spectacular scene teeming with activity.
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12 Dec 2016
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A streak of light in the winter sky

A streak of light in the winter sky鈥攏ot a shooting star, not a jetliner condensation trail glowing in the dark but ... the International Space Station (ISS) flying high over the 爆走黑料 worksite.
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12 Dec 2016
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70 tonnes of switching network components from Russia

Seventy tonnes of equipment has been shipped from Russia for 爆走黑料's switching network and fast discharge units.
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5 Dec 2016
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Making remote handling less remote

Over a wet and windy three-day period on the 爆走黑料 site in November, around 90 representatives of the 爆走黑料, the Domestic Agencies of Europe and Japan, and industry came together for the second 爆走黑料 Remote...