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The UK Government announced that UK researchers can now apply for grants and bid to take part in projects under Europe’s Horizon science R&D programme. The UK will be participating as a fully associated member for the remaining life of the programme to 2027. UK membership. The announcement also stated that the UK will associate to Copernicus, the European Union’s (EU's) Earth observation programme. However, it will not associate to the Euratom Research & Training programme (Euratom R&T) and by extension, the Fusion for Energy (F4E) Programme although there is an agreement to cooperate specifically on nuclear fusion.

Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsuk-joins-europes-horizon-and-copernicus-programmes-11140492

China's new-generation tokamak, Huanliu-3 (HL-3), has made significant progress operating in high-confinement mode (H mode) under a plasma current of 1 million amperes for the first time, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) announced. The experiment took place at CNNC’s Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP) in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. It is not clear whether this refers to the HL-2M tokamak, which was commissioned at SWIP in December 2020 as an upgrade of the earlier the HL-2A or whether this is a further upgrade.

Date: Thursday, 07 September 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-fusion-progress-for-china-11124388

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd (MHI) has completed manufacture of the final toroidal field (TF) coil ordered by Japan's National Institutes for Quantum & Radiological Science & Technology (QST) for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Cadarache in France. Japan is responsible for the manufacture of nine of 19 TF coils for ITER, with MHI producing five coils.

Date: Thursday, 31 August 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmhi-completes-key-component-for-iter-11109388

Specialists at Russia’s DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA, part of Rosatom) in St Petersburg have begun acceptance tests of the full-scale prototype panel for the first wall of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER under construction at Cadarache in France.

Date: Thursday, 17 August 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussian-specialists-test-prototype-of-wall-panel-for-iter-11076958

Specialists at the St Petersburg-based JSC NIIEFA - part of the Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom - have started acceptance tests of a full-scale prototype of the first wall panel for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion machine under construction in Cadarache, southern France.

Date: Tuesday, 15 August 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Testing-of-ITER-wall-panels-under-way

The US DIII-D National Fusion Facility has completed a two-year research campaign, which included a record-breaking 1,600 hours of plasma research as part of 140 ground-breaking studies. The facility, is an Office of Science scientific user facility operated by General Atomics in San Diego for the Department of Energy (DOE). It will now begin a series of major upgrades over the next eight months to prepare for the next phase of research. These scheduled upgrades are intended to keep the facility at the forefront of fusion science as a valuable resource for the entire fusion community.

Date: Saturday, 15 July 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrecord-breaking-run-for-diii-d-national-fusion-facility-11007013

A key component of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in France has been removed for essential repairs. The first of nine sector modules that will comprise the tokamak torus, which was installed in the assembly pit in May 2022, has now been removed in a reverse operation.

Date: Saturday, 15 July 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newskey-component-removed-from-iter-for-essential-repairs-11007120

Russia’s DV Efremov Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus (NIIEFA, part of Rosatom) says a Japanese test assembly has completed testing for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), under construction in France. Eight elements of a prototype divertor, passed 6,000 test cycles at loads from 5 to 20 MW per square metre, confirming "the compliance of the Japanese element with the highest requirements" of ITER. The tests were carried out at the ITER Divertor Test Facility (IDTF) in St Petersburg, which supports tasks for the ITER project.

Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsrussias-niiefa-tests-japanese-component-for-iter-11000375