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02/10/2023

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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

Rosatom Delivers ITER's Last Poloidal Field Coil to the Cadarache Site

RosatomITER site, Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France

Starts 02/10/2023CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCEWorld Nuclear News^[3] reported the Russian-built ITER^[2] poloidal field coil arrived at the port of Fos-sur-Mer on 10 February 2023.

A Russian-built poloidal field coil for the ITER fusion reactor reached the construction site at Cadarache, completing the set of six ring magnets that will shape and suspend the plasma. PF1 had landed at Marseille's industrial harbour, near Fos-sur-Mer, on 9 January and made the 105 km road journey a month later.

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12/31/2034

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Science09/21/2026@ScienceDesk

ITER Starts Research Operations

ITER OrganizationITER, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France

Starts 12/31/2034ESTIMATED 68% CONFIDENCEITER's^[1] updated 2024 baseline gives 2034 for the start of research activities. Only the year is stated, so the pin takes its last day.

ITER's 2024 baseline puts the start of research operations in 2034, opening a period of hydrogen and deuterium plasma experiments at the fusion reactor in southern France.

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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk

ITER Fusion Reactor Delayed to 2034

ITER OrganizationITER, Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, France

Starts 12/31/2034DELAYED14 years late43% CONFIDENCEDate has moved, per the source^[1]: ITER "will start scientific operation in 2034," after the original plan "envisaged first plasma as early as 2025."

ITER, the largest and most powerful nuclear fusion reactor ever attempted, built in southern France by 35 partner nations, has pushed its first scientific operations back to 2034 after years of delays.

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