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16 Dec 2019
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First power supply delivered

Turning the key in your car causes an electrical current to be sent from your battery to your car's engine, where a small electrode (or "spark plug") generates an electrical discharge to ignite the fuel and make your...
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16 Dec 2019
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A new ergonomic design

Thanks to a recent design decision, ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's main control room can be built more ergonomically, while minimizing cost.
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16 Dec 2019
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Commissioning with load completed

The final test operation for the twin sector sub-assembly tools—commissioning with load—was completed in the Assembly Hall on 26 November.
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16 Dec 2019
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A decisive year ahead

Two poloidal field coils—PF6 and PF5—must take their place in the Tokamak pit before the sectors of the vacuum vessel are lowered into place. The final activity on these magnets—cold testing—is planned next year in the...
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16 Dec 2019
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Crane gallery framed out

It took only nine days to install the structural modules that top the frame of the crane gallery. As one year ends and another begins, the construction teams will turn to cladding.
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9 Dec 2019
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Revamped tokamak completes 1st phase of operation

One day, in the latter half of this decade, it will be routine at ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ: dozens of operators, with eyes riveted to their individual monitors as numbers, graphs and real-time views of ongoing plasmas appear on large...
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9 Dec 2019
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Patience, precision and a crane's long arm

In the spring of 2020 a new and strategic phase of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ construction will begin: the assembly of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Tokamak. In order to deliver machine components to the assembly pit, a new volume—the crane hall—will be created...
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9 Dec 2019
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"Bringing light and hope"

Most international organizations are headquartered in large cities—the UN in New York, UNESCO and the International Energy Agency in Paris, the IAEA in Vienna, or the World Health Organization in Geneva. The ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ...
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9 Dec 2019
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A week devoted to fusion

A new biennial event in China seeks to create a comprehensive exchange platform for the scientists, engineers and industries that are driving the country's strong push in fusion research development.
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2 Dec 2019
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New campaign announced

The seventh recruitment campaign for the Monaco-±¬×ߺÚÁÏ postdoctoral fellowship program opens on 13 January.
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2 Dec 2019
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The waking of the beast

The beast had sat immobile for more than three years—no blood running in its veins, no electrical impulse shaking its nerves alive. With three long horns sticking out of its squat body, it was just waiting for the moment...
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2 Dec 2019
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Nearing the 1,000 mark

Given the breadth of assignments, schedules, and responsibilities it is impossible to capture a complete snapshot of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ staff at any given point in time. But on Friday 29 November, many of the 925 people...
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25 Nov 2019
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How cable became a coil

We saw it being born, in the form of spooled lengths of jacketed conductor; we saw it being wrapped in white fiberglass tape and slowly transformed into a "double pancake" from multiple turns of insulated coil. Finally...
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21 Nov 2019
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All efforts converging toward the start of machine assembly

The governing board of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ, the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council, concluded its Twenty-Fifth Meeting on Thursday 21 November. This was the last ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ Council meeting before the start of machine assembly.
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18 Nov 2019
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The many wonders of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ diagnostics

The eyes and ears of virtually all plant functions, ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ diagnostic sensors and accompanying systems will play an essential role at ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ. They will keep the reactor operating as efficiently as possible—and much more.
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18 Nov 2019
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Industry really can be "extraordinaire"

"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." This quote, attributed to the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, could have been the perfect slogan of this weekend's Extraordinary Factories (L'Usine...
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18 Nov 2019
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Civil works completed

The olive tree that stood for a few days at the top of the Tokamak Building marked the completion of a five-year effort by Europe and its main contractor VFR to construct the central building of the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ facility*. On...
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18 Nov 2019
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Another massive handling tool

Inside of the Assembly Hall, some of ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ's heaviest components will have to be raised ever so carefully from their horizontal delivery positions to vertical. This delicate operation is the job of the "upending tool"—a...
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18 Nov 2019
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Time to celebrate

It is traditional, in the world of construction, to celebrate the completion of a house or building by placing a leafy branch on its roof or topmost beam. The practice—known as "topping out"—originated in ancient...
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18 Nov 2019
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An award for ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ planning and scheduling

Early November, the ±¬×ߺÚÁÏ was recognized for the "innovative and forward-looking" digital management of its schedule by Oracle, whose Primavera software tool is used to plan and track approximately 270,000...