Daniel Clery

ITER faces further five-year delay

The €14bn ITER fusion reactor currently under construction in Cadarache, France, will require an additional cash injection of €4.6bn if it is to start up in 2025 – a target date that is already five years later than currently scheduled.

ITER threatened by setback to schedule

The organization building the ITER fusion reactor in France has asked for more money and more time after presenting a revised schedule and costing to its governing council in November 2015.

Novel stellarator begins operation

The €1bn Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) fusion experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany, is expected to produce its first plasma this month.

ITER nominates next leader

Bernard Bigot, chair of Frances Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), has been chosen as the next director-general of ITER – the experimental fusion reactor currently being built in Cadarache, France.

US sanctions on Russia hit ITER council

The ITER fusion experiment has had to bow to the impact of US sanctions against Russia and move the venue of its council meeting, scheduled for 18–19 June, from St Petersburg to the project headquarters in Cadarache, France.

Europe's Gaia mission gets ready to map a billion stars

Europes €450m Gaia spacecraft has taken up its position 1.5 million kilometres from Earth where it is set to begin producing the most accurate 3D map of our galaxy ever.

ITER faces management turmoil

A scathing report into the management of the ITER fusion experiment has thrown the whole project in the spotlight and even calls for the director-general to go, as Daniel Clery reports.

Critics attack new 10-year fusion plan

A new report that seeks to map out US priorities in fusion research over the next 10 years has received scathing reviews from American fusion researchers.

Energy agency targets novel fusion research

A US government agency has launched a new

Europe agrees €10bn space plan

30m programme to support alternative approaches to fusion energy.