The ITER Organization is celebrating the Start of Assembly of the ITER Tokamak with a ceremony today on 28th July 2020 at Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France. Invited Head of States of all ITER member countries are participating either in person, or electronically through remote mode, or conveying his/her message. The Celebration has been hosted virtually by President Macron.
ITER-India, as a 10% stakeholder in ITER - one of the largest experiments in the history of mankind, added another feather to its cap in terms of achieving a major milestone related to the completion of manufacturing of the one of the nine procurement packages in active collaboration with M/s Avasarala Technologies, Bengaluru.
India added yet another feather to its cap of successful fabrication and delivery to ITER IO France, when the lower cylinder, the 2nd of the 4 sections of the cryostat, was lowered onto the base section of the cryostat.
One of the first and most obvious requirements for the cryoline network is to be perfectly leak-tight.
The integrated commissioning of three of the water-cooled chillers of 1137 TR (4 MW) capacity, supplied by India to ITER Project has been completed successfully in May-June 2023 and this is a remarkable milestone towards operating cryoplant and other HVAC systems as per ITER schedule.
As a part of his two day visit to France, Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi along with his French counterpart President Emmanuel Macron took time out on 12.02.2025 to visit the ITER (www.iter.org) site in Saint Paul Les Durance near Marseille, France. It was a historic day for ITER as the two heads of state visited the site together to celebrate the biggest human collaborative effort in the fields of science and technology.
