Channel Title: iterorganization Channel Description: ITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars. The experimental campaign that will be carried out at ITER is crucial to advancing fusion science and preparing the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow. ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy, maintain fusion for long periods of time, and ITER will be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity. Videos from ITER are generally considered to be in the Creative Commons. Please send an email to the address below for file requests, including the URLs for requested videos. <video> Cryoplant ready for ultimate test Description: 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 continuously flowing in a closed circuit, five kilometres of cryolines, and a plant covering the area of a football pitch ... let ITER engineers from Russia, Japan, France, South Korea and India take you on a tour of the facility. </video> <video> How divertor testing at WEST helps ITER Description: A new video explores how the WEST tokamak, run and operated by the Institute for Magnetic Fusion Research (IRFM) at the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission's Cadarache site near ITER, is helping to prepare for ITER operation. WEST, for W (tungsten) Environment in Steady-state Tokamak, is the former Tore Supra, transformed with a full-tungsten, actively cooled divertor that is based on the same design and technology as the ITER tungsten divertor. Experiments at WEST allow scientists and engineers to address risks both in terms of industrial-scale manufacturing and in the operation of the components. A joint team made up of representatives of the CEA, the ITER Organization and the European Domestic Agency Fusion for Energy meets regularly to coordinate tests and share the lessons learned from the WEST experiments. This video takes you into the control room, where a new experimental campaign is underway. </video> <video> ITER by drone - October 2024 (subtitle version) Description: Follow the drone as it flies in and around the main buildings of the ITER scientific installation to see what has been happening on the worksite since the last time the ITER Organization published a drone video, one year ago. (With subtitles.) </video> <video> ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop Description: Pursuing the same goal and encountering some of the same challenges, public ventures like ITER and private fusion startups have a lot to share. In the long tradition of fusion openness and generous collaborations, establishing public-private synergies appears today not only as desirable, but as indispensable. That is precisely what the ITER Private Sector Fusion Workshop, which took place at ITER from 27 to 29 May, intended to accomplish. For three days, fusion startups, managers and scientists, suppliers, public research institutes, and advocates met with ITER Organization and Domestic Agency representatives to compare notes and explore possible paths to collaboration. (See full coverage of the event in the 3 June edition of the ITER Newsline: https://www.iter.org/whatsnew/423) </video> <video> Shake, rattle and... qualify! Description: Making sure the ITER tokamak will be safe in the event of an earthquake means components such as flanges, pumps, and valves for the vacuum system will not be affected by the accelerations and vibrations generated by a seismic event, however extreme. Within the scope of a public-private partnership with Element, one of the world leaders for testing and certification, and the University of Bristol, which has one of the most suitable shaker tables facilities in Europe, ITER was able to test components in earthquake-like high-intensity conditions. This video shows the high-level seismic test of a large scroll vacuum pump, which was proven to maintain its safety and operational functions after the shake test. </video> <video> ITER Business Forum 2025 - TEASER (Agence Iter France) Description: The next edition of the ITER Business Forum will take place in Marseille, France, from 23 to 25 April 2025. The international ITER Business Forum will showcase industrial opportunities, employment opportunities and technological innovation. Key participants include the ITER Organization, the ITER Domestic Agencies of China, Europe, India, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the United States, and suppliers. See all information at https://www.iterbusinessforum.com/. (Video produced by Agence Iter France.) </video> <video> The making of the ITER toroidal field coils Description: 19 D-shaped superconducting magnets, each one weighing as much as a jetliner and standing 5 storeys tall. These are the ITER toroidal field (TF) coils, 18 of which will be placed around the vacuum vessel to produce a total magnetic energy of 41 gigajoules and a maximum magnetic field of 11.8 tesla. Their design, prototyping and fabrication is a story that started long ago. This is the film that was shown during a ceremony of completion on 1 July 2024 at ITER. See more at: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/4055 </video> <video> ITER Main Control Room issues first command Description: On Thursday 19 December 2024, the ITER Main Control Room issued its first CODAC (Control, Data Access and Communication) command to a plant system, a decisive milestone towards tokamak operation. </video> <video> ITER magnet completion event Description: On 1 July, the ITER community, stakeholders, and company representatives were joined by dignitaries for the celebration marking the end of toroidal field coil manufacturing and delivery. See this article in the ITER Newsline: https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/4055 </video> <video> HAVING FUN WHILE DISCOVERING ITER Description: It was a beautiful, summer-like day on Saturday 13 April. Perfect for a journey into ITER. Nearly 800 members of the public, were welcomed on site by an all-volunteer roster of guides, timekeepers, hosts and hostesses, plasmagicians and specialists of all kinds. Open Doors Days are one way to share ITER with the public; the ITER visits team also runs a program that welcomes individuals and small groups throughout the year. (Just over 25,000 people visited ITER in all last year; since 2007 the figure tops 200,000). </video> <video> ITER by drone, October 2024 (Japanese voiceover version) Description: A Japanese language version of the latest drone video from the ITER Organization. Voiceover courtesy of ITER Japan/QST (https://www.fusion.qst.go.jp/ITER/). </video> <video> How do electronics react to magnetic fields? Description: Components installed in the ITER Tokamak Complex will be exposed to magnetic fields to varying degrees. To test the resistance of these components before operation, and to avoid the risk of dysfunction, samples are being subjected to maximum expected field levels in a test facility on site. </video> <video> Fusion Explained: A Lecture for Non Specialists Description: In a presentation for "non-specialists" on 18 January, ITER Director-General Pietro Barabaschi explained the fundamentals of fusion and, using parallels and paradoxes, presented the challenges it is facing. </video> <video> 2024 end-of-year greetings from the ITER project Description: </video> <video> ITER by drone - October 2024 (voiceover version) Description: Follow the drone as it flies in and around the main buildings of the ITER scientific installation to see what has been happening on the worksite since the last time the ITER Organization published a drone video, one year ago. (Voiceover version.) </video>

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ITER ("The Way" in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today.

In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world's largest tokamak, a magnetic fusion device that has been designed to prove the feasibility of fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our Sun and stars.

The experimental campaign that will be carried out at ITER is crucial to advancing fusion science and preparing the way for the fusion power plants of tomorrow.

ITER will be the first fusion device to produce net energy, maintain fusion for long periods of time, and ITER will be the first fusion device to test the integrated technologies, materials, and physics regimes necessary for the commercial production of fusion-based electricity.

Videos from ITER are generally considered to be in the Creative Commons. Please send an email to the address below for file requests, including the URLs for requested videos.

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