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The central solenoid magnet is a 18-metre-tall, 1,000-tonne component located at the very centre of the ITER tokamak that plays a vital role in starting and controlling the plasma. The heart of the...
During a complex 36-hour operation that ran from 26 to 27 May, teams successfully transferred another sector module into the tokamak pit. With five of the nine sector modules now in position, a 200...
Join us for a drone’s-eye view of construction progress at ITER, captured over one week in April. Follow along as the drone reveals the engineering expertise, teamwork, and coordination behind the ...
Watch as one-ninth of the ITER vacuum vessel is lifted out of tooling and lowered into the machine assembly pit. The operation—which took place over two days in January—tested, once again, the accu...
Originally filmed on site at ITER in May 2025, this video has been updated with new footage from December, with fresh views inside the tokamak pit (1:14–2:12). A third of the ITER plasma chamber is...
In the recently commissioned magnet cold test facility at ITER, several D-shaped toroidal field coils will be tested at their operating temperature of 4 K (minus 269 degrees Celsius). At 4 K, the w...
With the lifting and the insertion of vacuum vessel sector module #5, on 25 November, the ITER vacuum vessel is now one-third installed. This video gives you the behind-the-scenes look at the teams...
Watch this time-lapse video of an operation that took place at ITER on 24-25 November: the insertion of a 1100-tonne vacuum vessel sector module.
ITER's tall central magnet, the central solenoid, will be built from six stacked cylindrical modules and an exterior superstructure. Early November, the fifth module was lifted to the top of the st...
Safety Day has been organized at ITER since 2021 as part of an effort to promote a culture of safety, raise awareness about best practices, and reinforce the message that safety is a core value and...
Safety Day has been organized at ITER since 2021 as part of an effort to promote a culture of safety, raise awareness about best practices, and reinforce the message that safety is a core value and...
This drone video (with subtitles) starts with a flyover of the ITER site in southern France, where thousands of people from 33 nations are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak. Watch ...
The ITER Organization has begun deploying software that allows people to walk around the site and compare as-is work to as-designed 3D models on their tablets and smartphones. See the advantages fo...
Handling a giant component: On Tuesday 4 March, a 440-tonne ITER vacuum vessel sector was transferred temporarily to the tokamak pit, where it will be stored for approximately two weeks as part of ...
French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited the ITER worksite on 12 February 2025. Follow their short but historic visit in this video, or read more at https://...
This video from the Italian fusion lab Consorzio RFX documents the September 2024 Ride 4 Fusion adventure that took a group of bicyclists from Padua, Italy, to the ITER site in Cadarache, France, t...
Integral to the operation of ITER's 10,000 tonnes of superconducting magnets is the ITER cryoplant, at the heart of one of the largest cryogenic systems every conceived. Thirty tonnes of helium con...
This is the Japanese-subtitle version of the May 2025 ITER drone video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVN2hFMTFWw).
A powerful story of science, unity, and hope. Watch the special ITER film created for Expo 2025 Osaka — a moving reminder of why the world is coming together to build a brighter energy future throu...