Europe and Japan Complete the Most Powerful Tokamak in the World Almost twelve years after they started their collaboration, Europe and Japan have taken an important step in the development of fusion energy by completing JT-60SA, the most powerful tokamak in the world before ITER enters the picture. With a diameter of 12 m, the…
Ansaldo Nucleare Completed The Welding Activities On First Sector Of ITER Vacuum Vessel Last December, Ansaldo Nucleare completed the welding activities for the installation of crucial diagnostics, instrumentation and a cable tray on Vacuum Vessel Sector #6 (VVS#6) at ITER. As part of the Tokamak Assembly Works, specialist engineers from Ansaldo Nucleare were required to…
Fusion Energy Record At Joint European Torus In The UK A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion energy output! Researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) in the UK doubled previous records by producing a total of 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period. The JET is the largest and most…
ITER Project Achieved A Major Machine Assembly Milestone Thursday 11th May the ITER Project achieved a major machine assembly milestone, as the first sub-section of the ITER plasma chamber was successfully lifted out of tooling and lowered into the machine well. This major lifting operation took several months to prepare for the entire ITER and…
EUROfusion Started The DEMO Conceptual Design Phase Last 5th July 2022, the EUROfusion consortium announced the start of conceptual design activities for Europe’s first demonstration fusion power plant DEMO, the ITER’s successor. DEMO (Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor) is a first-of-its-kind facility that represents the next technological step after the global ITER fusion experiment. It aims…
Tractebel To Support The First Light Fusion’s Project In Oxford Tractebel (ENS Corporate Member) and First Light Fusion signed a framework agreement to develop the first projectile fusion demonstrator in Oxford, United Kingdom. The Machine-4 (M4) is a research and experimental facility, which First Light will use to demonstrate Net Energy Gain – the process…