The U.S. program managing one of the most technically demanding fabrication projects in energy construction has completed delivery of all components for the central solenoid magnet system at the ITER fusion reactor in Cadarache, France—clearing the path toward first-plasma operations set for 2034. U.S. ITER, the domestic program based at the Tennessee-based federal Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed final shipments for the central solenoid last month, according to an April 27 announcement from the ITER Organization. The most recent deliveries included busbars and leads for electrical connections between the magnet modules. All six modules, the support structure, and tooling components had been delivered earlier. ITER is backed by a coalition including the U.S., European Union, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Russia, and is designed as a research facility to demonstrate sustained net-energy fusion reactions—not to produce power for the commercial grid.…