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Night shift

When dusk falls

There is a magic moment at dusk when the ��ר�� site lights up and the sky still retains some of the light of day. Details that were washed out by the intense daylight or buried in the deep shade jump to the eye as warm...

Under, over and beside the tokamak

In the immediate vicinity of the machine—in the deep vaults of the Tokamak Complex or under the high rafters of the Assembly Building—construction teams are preparing for 2019 assembly-related activities. Whether it is...

Home stretch for base and lower cylinder

Just over two years after the first welding activities were initiated in the Cryostat Workshop at ��ר��, Indian Domestic Agency contractors are executing the final assembly tasks on the two lower sections of the cryostat...

Support for the machine

A tokamak would be a lifeless machine if it was not supported by a significant industrial infrastructure. On the ��ר�� platform close to 40 buildings host the equipment and systems that make burning plasma experiments...

TFTR's legacy

"US should remain in ��ר��"

The US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has completed a multiyear study of the overall status of magnetic confinement fusion research in the United States. Its recommendation? Continued US...

A Princess Royal with a passion for science

Her Royal Highness Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand is a princess with a passion for science, development and education. The daughter of King Bhumibol the Great, who reigned for more than 70 years over the Southeast...

Ringing in the festive season

A beautiful Christmas tree set in the middle of a Provençal nativity scene in the ��ר�� lobby has brought the festive season to ��ר��. The tree is a gift of the mayor of Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, Roger Pizot, who turned the...

MOMENTUM believes in recent graduates

It is rare for students to leave university and immediately begin work on a globally significant project. But thanks to the graduate program run by the project's Construction Management-as-Agent (CMA) contractor...

Big steel elbow in place

A cryostat feedthrough delivered by the Chinese Domestic Agency has become the first metal component of the machine to be installed in the tokamak pit, in an operation orchestrated over two weeks by the ��ר��...

Europe awards EUR 20 million contract

The contract, awarded to ALSYOM-SEIV (ALCEN group, France), launches the manufacturing phase for the beam source that will come on line in 2022 as part of the full-power, full-scale test bed for ��ר�� neutral beam...

US Under Secretary of Science tours site

Five months, almost to the day, after the US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry visited ��ר��, his deputy, Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar, stood by the same vast windows in the Director-General's meeting room, taking...

JET mirrors ��ר��'s plasma-facing materials

D and T to meet at JET in 2020

In 2020, for the first time in more than 20 years, a reaction that only occurs in the core of the stars will be produced on Earth in a man-made machine. In the European JET, the largest tokamak presently in operation...

WEST tokamak controlled from Japan

On a large video wall in Rokkasho, Japan, a plasma generated in the south of France flashes briefly. Operators are testing remote data acquisition and control techniques—the same techniques that will one day make it...

Routing cables

10,000 kilometres of arteries

Put end to end, the cables that will crisscross the ��ר�� scientific installation like arteries could reach the Peruvian capital Lima from the south of France—a total of 10,000 kilometres. One of the biggest challenges in...

Europe completes all "double pancakes"

Each one of ��ר��'s giant, D-shaped toroidal field coils is built from seven "double pancakes"—layers of spiralled conductor that carry electrical current. Contractors to the European Domestic Agency have now realized 70...

In the cradle of the cryostat

On the northwestern coast of India, facing the Arabian Peninsula, Hazira is one of the subcontinent's major industrial hubs. Under the still-blazing autumn sun, the landscape is one of refineries, shipyards, power plants...

First machine component enters the tokamak pit

A new chapter opened last night in the history of ��ר�� construction as the first machine component entered the tokamak pit through the narrow opening in the bioshield lid.

Remote handling confirmed

The ��ר�� is putting a number of its planned remote handling activities to the test in a five-year collaboration* with the UK Atomic Energy Authority's RACE facility. The first implementing agreement of the...

A task force to face the challenge

When operating tokamaks of the size of ��ר��, one of the key systems to ensuring reliable and successful operation from the very first campaign onward is the disruption mitigation system.

Procurement agreement for torus and cryostat cryopumps

Time to hand over to industry

After more than 12 years of development, the ��ר�� cryopump is ready for industrial procurement. The Procurement Arrangement for the eight production torus and cryostat cryopumps was signed on 16 November 2018 between the...