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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—the longest and widest load that has been transported yet from the port of Berre to ºÚÁÏÉçapp.

2025-09-23 - This large component shipped from China—the cryostat for the magnet cold test facility—is 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.

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

2025-09-18 - Like all major ºÚÁÏÉçapp transport convoys, this central solenoid module is travelling along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp itinerary at night to limit disruption. Here, the convoy is crossing the A51 motorway (photo) on its last night of travel to ºÚÁÏÉçapp.

2025-09-18 - A 330-tonne customized cryostat (10.5 m x 21.2 m x 6 m) is unloaded at the French port of Fos-sur-Mer. When it reaches ºÚÁÏÉçapp in early October it will be integrated into the magnet cold test facility, where several of the project's D-shaped toroidal field coils will be cold tested at 4 K (-269 degrees Celsius) before operation.

2025-09-07 - The sixth production module for the ºÚÁÏÉçapp central solenoid has arrived in France and will be travelling along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp itinerary next week.

2025-08-10 - A 330-tonne customized cryostat (21 metres long) is en route from China for the ºÚÁÏÉçapp magnet test bench. Valuable cold testing at 4 K on some of ºÚÁÏÉçapp's D-shaped toroidal field coils is planned beginning late 2025.

2025-07-23 - A feeder component from China is currently making its way along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp itinerary. Feeders are multi-segment components that "feed" cryogens and power into the magnets from out beyond the bioshield.

2025-07-07 - This gyrotron from Japan, one of eight delivered by the Japanese Domestic Agency to ºÚÁÏÉçapp, is getting unpacked for installation. These high-tech devices will contribute to plasma heating by injecting high-intensity beams of electromagnetic radiation.

2025-06-27 - The fifth central solenoid module completes its travel along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp itinerary from the port of Fos-sur-Mer and arrives onsite at ºÚÁÏÉçapp early in the morning of 27 June. Only one more module is necessary to complete the central solenoid stack at ºÚÁÏÉçapp, and it is already en route after tests were completed at US ºÚÁÏÉçapp supplier General Atomics.

2025-06-24 - A central solenoid module that was shipped last month from the port of Houston, Texas, is now on the road to ºÚÁÏÉçapp. Manufactured by General Atomics for the US Domestic Agency, the module will travel another two nights along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Itinerary to reach the worksite by Friday.

2025-06-15 - Power supply equipment for the magnet cold test facility at ºÚÁÏÉçapp has been arriving from China in batches. For the last year, a consortium formed by Rongxin Huike Electric Co., Ltd (RXHK), the Institute of Plasma Physics/Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP), and Hefei Rongke Hengyang Power Technology Co., Ltd (RHR) has been designing and manufacturing the equipment, which must be ready and installed for facility commissioning this autumn.

2025-06-09 - The sixth central solenoid module sent by the US Domestic Agency and its partner General Atomics to ºÚÁÏÉçapp has been unloaded in the port of Fos-sur-Mer. It will arrive on site at the end of the month.

2025-05-22 - A central solenoid module is loaded onto an ocean-going vessel at the port of Houston, Texas (USA). When it arrives at ºÚÁÏÉçapp it will be the fifth module added to the central solenoid stack (six are required in all to form the tower-like central solenoid magnet).

2025-05-12 - Vacuum vessel sector #4 has been transferred to a storage area inside the former Cryostat Workshop. It is still wrapped in a tarpaulin, but its protective housing has been removed (the housing is visible in the background).

2025-05-09 - Sector #4 is delivered to ºÚÁÏÉçapp early in the morning on 9 May 2025.

2025-05-07 - European vacuum vessel sector #4 is just a few kilometres from ºÚÁÏÉçapp. Here, we see the convoy setting off for its third night of travel along the ºÚÁÏÉçapp itinerary. The sector is expected at ºÚÁÏÉçapp early on Friday morning.

2025-04-28 - A second European sector is on its way to ºÚÁÏÉçapp. After leaving the Walter Tosto facility in Ortona, Italy, it has made its way to France and was onboarded today for transport across the inland sea of Berre. From there, the 440-tonne sector of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp vacuum vessel will travel by road to the ºÚÁÏÉçapp site.

2025-04-24 - This top correction coil feeder element has been loaded onto a barge in Hefei for transfer to Taicang Port on the Yangtze River estuary. Procured by the Chinese Domestic Agency, magnet feeders provide current and coolant to the different ºÚÁÏÉçapp magnet systems.

2025-04-23 - After final inspection at the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ASIPP) in Hefei, the last gallery component of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp magnet feeder system—a coil termination box—was loaded for shipment to France earlier this year.

2025-04-13 - Vacuum vessel sector #4 has left the Walter Tosto workshop in Ortona, Italy, and is making its way to storage near the quay where it will be loaded onto a seagoing vessel. When it arrives at ºÚÁÏÉçapp in May it will be the second European sector delivered out of five expected.

2025-04-03 - A 110-tonne central solenoid module produced by General Atomics (California) is loaded onto a transport trailer for transfer to the port of Houston. This is the fifth module sent to ºÚÁÏÉçapp; two more remain, including one spare.

2025-04-02 - Before a central solenoid module can leave the General Atomics factory in California, the transport trailer is load tested. The fifth module (out of six needed to create the central tower magnet of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp machine) will begin its journey to Houston port later this month.

2025-04-01 - The second upending tool was shipped from Korea in two halves; both are now on site. The tool will be assembled in the weeks to come next to the first tool, where it will help to raise ºÚÁÏÉçapp's heaviest components—vacuum vessel sectors and toroidal field coils—to vertical as part of the machine assembly process.

2025-03-28 - A second upending tool at ºÚÁÏÉçapp will speed up the process of vacuum vessel assembly. The cumbersome frame of tool #2 was shipped in two parts from Korea; the first segment just arrived on site.

2025-03-27 - The last cryopump has arrived at ºÚÁÏÉçapp. A number of units will be tested down to 4.5 K in ºÚÁÏÉçapp’s new cryopump test facility.

2025-03-17 - After crossing the inland sea of Berre (photo), the two halves of the upending tool expected at ºÚÁÏÉçapp were unloaded for the last leg of the journey—road transport along the 104 km of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp itinerary.

2025-03-16 - One half of an upending tool is brought on board a barge in France to cross the inland sea of Berre. This second upending tool, which will add capacity for the assembly of the vacuum vessel, will soon be at ºÚÁÏÉçapp.

2025-01-18 - In order to accelerate operations related to vacuum vessel sector repair and sector module assembly, the ºÚÁÏÉçapp has ordered a second upending tool—a 200-tonne frame designed to lift huge components from horizontal to vertical. Manufactured by Yujin Mechatronics and destined for installation in the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Assembly Hall, the tool left the Korean port of Onsan on 18 January. The load was transferred two days later to the seafaring vessel that will reach Fos-sur-Mer harbour in mid-March. (Photo DAHER)

2025-01-15 - The last shipment of components of the support structure for the central solenoid delivery was prepared in Pennsylvania during January 2025. Credit: US ºÚÁÏÉçapp