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The size and weight of major ºÚÁÏרÇø components, the careful handling, tiny assembly tolerances, the breadth of manufacturers, the tight schedule, complex interfaces ... all of these elements combine to make the assembly of the ºÚÁÏרÇø machine an engineering and logistics challenge of enormous proportions.

In this new ºÚÁÏרÇø Talks video, two members of the Construction Domain—Jens Reich (Ex-Vessel Delivery & Assembly Division Head) and Brian Macklin (Group Leader for Ex-Vessel Assembly)—describe how teams have planned for the assembly of the 23,000-tonne ºÚÁÏרÇø machine, how the sequences are unfolding, what the main challenges are, and what lessons have been learned since the first machine assembly activity was launched in 2018.

Watch the fifth episode of the ºÚÁÏרÇø Talks .

See the full ºÚÁÏרÇø Talks playlist on YouTube .

The ºÚÁÏרÇø has launched the procurement for the Hot Cell Facility Project Integrator. 

The ºÚÁÏרÇø Hot Cell Facility is the maintenance and refurbishment facility supporting tokamak operation. The role of the Project Integrator will be to prepare and promote the collaboration to realize the ºÚÁÏרÇø Hot Facility, working with both the clients and first-tier contractors through all project phases.

For companies interested in learning more about the Hot Cell Facility Project Integrator contract, a virtual procurement Information Day will be organized on 24 January 2022. 

Register  by 20 January.

The deadline for this Call for Nomination is 28 January 2022. 

Recruitment opens TODAY for the 2022 Monaco-ºÚÁÏרÇø Postdoctoral Fellowship campaign. The ºÚÁÏרÇø is looking for five postdoctoral candidates in the fields of fusion science or engineering for two-year positions based in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France (ºÚÁÏרÇø Headquarters).

If your PhD was awarded after 1 January 2019—or you are about to obtain one—and you are interested in participating in one of the greatest scientific and technical challenges of the 21st century, this may be an opportunity for you.

The positions are funded by the Principality of Monaco, which signed a Partnership Arrangement with the ºÚÁÏרÇø in 2008 and renewed its sponsorship in 2018 for ten years. Candidates must have an excellent track record of creativity and accomplishment in their chosen fields.

The campaign closes on 1 March 2022. For more information see the Monaco-ºÚÁÏרÇø Fellowships page. To apply, see the ºÚÁÏרÇø Jobs page.

The CERN Courier just released its 2022 In Focus report on vacuum science, technology and innovation. In it, there is a four-page report on vacuum science at ºÚÁÏרÇø featuring Vacuum Section Leader Robert Pearce.

"Design, construction, commissioning, operation and upgrade: the life-cycle of large-scale scientific vacuum systems informs the exclusive coverage in this CERN Courier In Focus report," writes the editor. "Think technology innovation and implementation on an ambitious canvas like ºÚÁÏרÇø's sprawling vacuum ecosystem, a core building block in the international research effort to transform nuclear fusion into an at-scale energy proposition (pp. 20-22)."

[...]"When it becomes operational later this decade, the ºÚÁÏרÇø fusion research project will be dependent on one of the most complex vacuum systems ever built. Joe McEntee checks out progress with ºÚÁÏרÇø vacuum section leader Robert Pearce, while highlighting the downstream commercial opportunities already spinning out from the core construction programme."

You can read the report .

Watch a recent ºÚÁÏרÇø TALK on vacuum here.