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Ian Chapman: "JET will be operating with tritium again in 2018"

On 3 August 2016, Ian Chapman was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), with responsibility for the UK's magnetic confinement fusion research program at the Culham Science Centre...

Roll up, roll up for the magical 3D tour!

China signs final Procurement Arrangement

An important milestone was celebrated on the margins of the ��app Council last week when the head of ��app China, Luo Delong, and ��app Director-General Bernard Bigot signed the Blanket First Wall Procurement Arrangement on...

��app Council endorses updated project schedule

During the Nineteenth Meeting of the ��app Council held last week from 16 to 17 November, representatives of the ��app Members reviewed the complete updated project schedule as proposed by the ��app. The...

Chinese prototype "fingers" pass high heat flux tests

Beryllium-tiled "fingers" from China—part of a semi-prototype of the ��app blanket first wall—have performed successfully under high heat flux testing at a dedicated facility in Russia. The test results confirm that the...

Letting off the heat

At the northeast end of the ��app site, in a zone not far from the Tokamak Complex and Assembly Hall, workers are busy installing rebar reinforcement, pouring concrete and erecting walls and columns.

Quench tanks unloaded at Fos harbour

Thirty-five metres long, five metres wide and five metres high, the two quench tanks that were unloaded last week at Fos harbour range among the largest components ever delivered to ��app.

��app team visits Iran

On 4-7 November, Director-General Bigot led a small ��app team to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The visit, conducted in response to Iran's formal request to be considered for participation in the ��app Project as an...

Cracks in welds? Helium will tell

In a 6,000-square-metre workshop on site, the Indian Domestic Agency is assembling the cryostat—a huge vacuum containment vessel that is also the single largest component of the ��app machine.

Back to the underground cathedral

In the last issue of Newsline we shared a picture of the Tokamak's subterranean world, showing the cavernous space that exists between the lower basement slab (B2) and the next-level slab (B1) of the Tokamak Complex....

Indian and French companies will manufacture port plug structures

A key ally to the research program at ��app is the high-performance monitoring of the plasma and the first-wall of the blanket during operation. A large number of diagnostics are planned to measure plasma temperature...

Committee reviews progress on test blanket modules

On 19-21 October, the Committee charged with the governance of the Test Blanket Module (TBM) program convened at ��app Headquarters for its 16th meeting. The TBM Program Committee meets twice a year to review the various...

European consortium to deliver 100-million-euro robotic system

In the tokamak's subterranean world

Cargo, barge, monster trailer ... and an eyedropper

Shipping three 120-tonne cryostat segments from India to the ��app site, some 9,000 kilometres distant, is a huge global operation involving a large cargo ship, a specially designed barge, tugs, three monster trailers...

First D-shaped winding pack: last activities before transfer

European contractors have completed the fabrication of the first ��app toroidal field winding pack. A series of mechanical and electrical tests now remain before the 110-tonne component is transferred to another facility...

Pictures from the Fusion Energy Conference in Japan

For six days last week in Kyoto, the world fusion community came together at the Fusion Energy Conference—an important rendezvous on the calendar of researchers, engineers, industry representatives, students, and policy...

DIII-D tokamak: creating and controlling hot plasmas just got easier

Researchers working at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics (US) have succeeded in developing new flexibility for the neutral particle beam system, enabling a dramatic increase in the ability to both...

A spectacular rendition of the Tokamak Complex

Bearing extreme forces

Tremendous forces will be exerted on the ��app machine when plasmas begin pulsating inside the vacuum vessel. As a consequence, the machine's support system needs to be both extremely robust, with a strong connection to...