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2025-09-30 - The flags of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Members stand out against the concrete backdrop of the Tokamak Complex, in the waning light of a late September day...

2025-09-29 - A large component is making its way along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp itinerary this week, every night for five nights. It's a very large cryostat chamber destined for ºÚÁÏÉçapp's magnet cold test facility¡ªthe longest and widest load that has been transported yet from the port of Berre to ºÚÁÏÉçapp.

2025-09-29 - Handling operations are underway in the Assembly Hall to move 330-tonne D-shaped toroidal field coils to their rendezvous with sector #8. Once paired in tooling with its thermal shield and two toroidal field coils, sector #8 becomes sector module #8 and can be transferred into the tokamak pit.

2025-09-26 - At the World Atomic Week in Moscow, ºÚÁÏÉçapp head of Science & Integration Alain B¨¦coulet participates in a panel on fusion energy, part of a series of events organized around the theme "Science and Education: a Driving Force of Progress." How would mastering fusion energy change our lives? What specialists will be in demand in this field?

2025-09-25 - Representatives of academia, government, and the private sector in San Diego, USA, visit ºÚÁÏÉçapp in September as part of a larger trade mission to France. Home to General Atomics, the manufacturer of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp central solenoid, and the University of San Diego, at the centre of a number of new fusion initiatives, San Diego is becoming something of a fusion hub.

2025-09-24 - Deep inside a Tokamak Building gallery, two feeder elements are being connected. One of the most complex tasks? The creation of a superconducting busbar joint (pictured).

2025-09-24 - Final cleaning is underway on the completed feeder connection between a coil termination box (left) and a cryostat feedthrough (right).

2025-09-24 - The gallery components of a feeder¡ªcoil termination boxes (example, right) and cryostat feedthroughs (example, left)¡ªmust be joined. In this photo, a cooling pipe has been aligned.

2025-09-24 - Workers position the last major feeder component in the Tokamak Building, a coil termination box.

2025-09-24 - The last coil termination box was installed in the Tokamak Building on 22 September. All gallery components of the magnet feeder system are now in place, with the exception of one coil termination box that has been ¡°loaned¡± to the magnet cold test facility.

2025-09-23 - This large component shipped from China¡ªthe cryostat for the magnet cold test facility¡ªis now crossing the inland sea of Berre in the south of France to reach the start of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp road itinerary. It will travel along the itinerary for 5 nights to reach the worksite.

2025-09-22 - An element of the magnet feeder system is transported through the Assembly Hall and over the tokamak pit. Called a coil termination box, it will be the last feeder component to be installed in the concrete galleries of the Tokamak Building.

2025-09-20 - 800 people take part in the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Games on Saturday 20 September under the plane trees of the Vinon-sur-Verdon and the surrounding countryside. While the most ambitious try their hand at trail running, football (soccer), or mountain biking, others take advantage of games for every age, including p¨¦tanque, where arguments can be avoid with a handy tape measure...

2025-09-19 - On 19 September, ºÚÁÏÉçapp received the sixth and final magnet module required to build the central solenoid stack.