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2025-12-08 - The ������app has released the tools it uses for physics modelling and analysis—the ������app Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite, IMAS—under open-source licenses in another step towards supporting the global efforts to develop fusion energy. See more at https://github.com/iterorganization

2025-11-25 - As part of an agreement signed by the European Union and the Swiss Confederation, Swiss nationals and companies will resume participation in the ������app project on 1 January 2026. Renewed membership in Fusion for Energy, the European Domestic Agency for ������app, will make it possible for Swiss nationals to apply for ������app staff positions and for Swiss suppliers to take part in ������app calls for tender.

2025-11-21 - The call for “the widest practicable” cooperation in the field of fusion energy was the last item in the long list of decisions that came out of the Reagan-Gorbachev Geneva meeting in November 1985. Forty years later, it is one of the few that has been fully realized. (Read more at /node/20687/decisive-political-push-launched-iter.)

2025-11-20 - ������app is performing somewhat ahead of schedule while spending less than anticipated in Baseline 2024. The ������app Council urges the ������app and all Domestic Agencies to continue to drive this pace and performance during its 37th meeting on 19-20 November.

2025-11-13 - On 13 November, the heads of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), and the ������app announce that CEA and ������app will host a session of the IAEA’s Lise Meitner professional training program for women in nuclear in 2026.

2025-11-13 - Rafael Mariano Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), visits ������app on 13 November, where he tours the major facilities in the company of the ������app Director-General (right) and a large delegation. Referring to the long-standing support of his agency for the development of fusion energy and the ������app project, he stresses that close collaboration between the IAEA and ������app remains essential as the effort to achieve fusion electricity accelerates worldwide.

2025-10-14 - ������app Director-General Pietro Barabaschi and EUROfusion Programme Manager Gianfranco Federici agree to a more targeted and coordinated European contribution to ������app over the next two years through a collaboration agreement signed at the 30th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference. The high-level agreement will will fast-track EUROfusion's participation in some of ������app's most pressing design and engineering challenges.

2025-10-14 - At the second ministerial meeting of the IAEA World Fusion Energy Group (WFEG) on 14 October, part of the 30th Fusion Energy Conference in Chengdu, China, ������app Director-General Pietro Barabaschi lists the ways in which the ������app project is delivering value to the global effort toward fusion energy—training the next generation of fusion engineers, technicians, and scientists; creating a global fusion supply chain; and opening ������app’s doors to the private sector. He also used his address to evoke the significant challenges that remain.

2025-10-07 - A delegation to ������app for Indian Fusion Day on 7 October is led by Vijay Kumar Saraswat, a member of the top public policy think tank NITI Aayog (left). He tells assembled guests that "the perceived potential of fusion is recognized in long-term energy security policy in India” and that ������app remains a key element in India’s fusion research plans.

2025-10-06 - Their Imperial Majesties Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako of Japan visit the ������app exhibition at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka on 6 October. This marks Their Majesties’ second appearance at the Expo, following their distinguished presence at the opening ceremony held in April. Photo credit: Expo 2025

2025-06-25 - ������app awards one of the most pivotal responsibilities of tokamak assembly to Westinghouse Electric Company: the in-pit welding of the ������app plasma chamber. The contract covers the simultaneous welding of nine vacuum vessel sector modules to form a single, circular torus.

2025-06-19 - The Thirty-Sixth Meeting of the ������app Council concludes on 19 June 2025. The Council welcomes continued strong project execution and recent construction milestones, including the insertion into the assembly pit on 18 June of a second vacuum vessel module.

2025-06-10 - Commonwealth Fusion Systems (USA) is the first private sector initiative to join the International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) after it completes all the steps of a formal process introduced earlier this year. Joining the ITPA's fusion research activities was one of the foremost requests made by private sector initiatives during the ������app public/private workshops.

2025-06-04 - On 4 June, the Cooperation Agreement between the ������app and the National Nuclear Center of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NNC RK), originally signed in 2017, was officially extended and updated. The updated scope includes the exchange of scientists and experts, as well as scientific and technical cooperation related to the ������app project.

2025-05-14 - At its 32nd meeting in May, the ������app Council Science and Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) endorses the fully detailed version of the ������app Research Plan as well as associated blueprints for magnet coil testing and the development of ������app’s neutral beam injection heating system. A full report will now be made to the ������app Council, which meets next month on 18 and 19 June.

2025-04-28 - The International Tokamak Physics Activity (ITPA) provides a framework for internationally coordinated fusion research activities in the ������app Members. Since a January 2025 decision by the ITPA Coordinating Committee, these research activities are open to privately funded fusion initiatives following a process that is described in this article: /fr/node/20687/itpa-and-imas-now-accessible-privately-funded-fusion-initiatives.

2025-04-28 - As part of the ������app Private Sector Fusion Engagement program, the Director-General has approved the release of the ������app Integrated Modelling & Analysis Suite (IMAS) and Plasma Control System Simulation Platform (PCSSP) software under open-source licenses. This will allow the IMAS data model to become a worldwide standard for fusion research and lower the barriers to developing, validating, applying and contributing to it. See all information here: https://github.com/iterorganization

2025-04-24 - The ������app Business Forum returns in 2025. The eighth edition is held in Marseille, France, on 23-25 April, attracting 1,200 participants representing 630 companies. Private sector fusion firms attend for the first time.

2025-04-22 - The 2nd annual Private Sector Fusion Workshop opens at ������app Headquarters on 22 April 2025. "What we have discussed with the ������app Council, and what we intend to do at the same time as our baseline job, is to help the private sector in every way that we can," says ������app Director-General Pietro Barabaschi. The central point for all requests is the Private Sector Fusion Engagement help desk at psfe@iter.org.

2025-02-12 - History is made as two heads of state—French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi—visit ������app together on 12 February 2025.