At that moment in history, tension between the Soviet Union and the United States was high and there was a real risk that the Cold War would escalate—something that both men, despite their differences ...

At JET, the biggest operating tokamak in the world, the energy consumption of the electromagnets is on the order of 150 MW—one-sixth of the power delivered by a standard nuclear plant. Although ...

Two 1.5-metre-thick concrete basemats are already in place in the Tokamak Seismic Pit. For the lower basemat, which supports the 493 anti-seismic columns, a rather "standard" concrete was chosen that ...

Whereas in a solid, a liquid or a gas the nuclei of atoms and electrons are closely associated, in a plasma (the fourth state of matter) electrons get stripped from their atoms under the effect of ...

ITER Organization (IO) is responsible for the design of the ITER tokamak and its auxiliary systems. The ITER Organization will be responsible for machine installation and assembly, beginning in 2015, ...