US EditionITER Completes Central Solenoid, Advancing Fusion Reactor Assembly
- In early 2025, the ITER project finalized the assembly of the most extensive and strongest superconducting magnet system designed for pulsed operation at its facility in southern France.
- This milestone follows years of international cooperation between over 30 countries, including key contributions from India, the US, Russia, and Europe, despite some delays and geopolitical challenges.
- The sixth and final segment of the Central Solenoid, constructed and evaluated in the United States, will become the most forceful magnet in the system once assembled, with enough strength to hoist an aircraft carrier.
- This magnet system weighs nearly 3,000 tons, stores 51 gigajoules of magnetic energy, and creates the magnetic field to confine plasma at 150 million degrees Celsius in the ITER Tokamak.
- ITER aims to generate ten times the input energy by producing 500 megawatts of fusion power from an input of 50 megawatts, demonstrating fusion’s potential and supplying essential data to advance commercial fusion technology.
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Fusion Project Completes World’s Most Powerful Magnet System
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), a multi-national endeavor to build a system to experiment with nuclear fusion, has just completed the final component of its pulsed superconducting electromagnet system, the world’s largest and most powerful, in a landmark moment for fusion research. ITER, which includes China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States, is an international joint experiment …
Global nuclear fusion project hits key milestone with world’s most powerful magnet
SINGAPORE, May 1 — A much-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is ready to assemble the world’s most powerful magnet — a key part of efforts to generate clean energy by smashing atoms together at super-high temperatures. The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, based in southern France and backed by the United States, China, Japan, Russia and the European Union, needs the magnetic system to …
Fusion Breakthrough: Magnet Powerful Enough to Levitate an Aircraft Carrier Marks Final Step Before ITER Reactor Assembly
In a critical fusion breakthrough, scientists from the international ITER nuclear fusion energy project have announced the completion of the sixth and final component of the reactor’s central solenoid, a magnet powerful enough to levitate an aircraft carrier. Described as a “landmark achievement” by the 30-country ITER collaboration, the pulsed superconducting electromagnet and other completed components will be assembled at the group’s designat…
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