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A whole new weld for ITER pipe inspections

CCFE's Joining & Advanced Manufacturing team is working on novel techniques for performing safety checks on components at the ITER next-step fusion reactor. ITER – the large international fusion machine being built in southern France – will have a network…
Nick Holloway
February 20, 2020
Dr Mike Forrest - Thomson scattering experiment, 1964Focus onNews

Mission to Moscow: 50 years on

Fifty years ago, five scientists from Culham Laboratory made a trip to the Soviet Union that was to prove a pivotal moment in the quest for fusion energy. Their journey to Moscow's Kurchatov Institute in 1969 confirmed the impressive results…
Nick Holloway
November 22, 2019