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Welcome to Season 2, The ITER World from The ITER Podcast.

The first episode of this Season follows three exceptional women who have dominated their field and are pursuing their aspirations with ITER. The host, Kruti Mawani Fayot, speaks with engineers Aakanksha Saxena and Karina Vergara not only about the challenges, but also the advantages they have encountered as pioneers in nuclear fusion energy. Shira Tabachnikoff, ITER’s communication manager and co-founder of Women in Fusion, joins the discussion on the importance of creating a community for women in STEM and nuclear fusion fields.

Descend with us in to THE ITER WORLD on the website, World Radio Paris, Youtube, and all your favorite podcast channels.

This interview takes us along to the heart of The ITER’ World - the assembly hall and Tokamak Pit, where a group of visitors from France, Thailand and the Netherlands have decided to come to Provence on their holiday and visit the ITER construction site. They give their impressions about ITER’s impressive goals and their honest take on nuclear fusion energy.

Next, we speak to one of ITER’s visit guides, Kirsten Haupt who gives us insight into why so many people - both scientists and laymen - come to visit the site, who they are, and what her experience is as a guide at one the world’s largest human collaborations to date.

From the Outside In, learn more about the inner workings of ITER and join in this audio tour!

This episode speaks with 2 young fusion enthusiasts who come from two distinct backgrounds yet convey a similar sense of purpose and passion for fusion - communicator Harry Kelso from the US and physics student Aleksandar Stojcheski from Macedonia.
We speak about how they fell for fusion, how the youth perceives this energy source and what advice they'd give to other students and professionals who are curious about fusion.
 

A terrific experiment in the making since decades, ITER is a giant not only in sheer size, but in knowledge, complexity, and inspiration. 
 
In this last episode of Season 2, we take a look at how Laban Coblentz, the Communications Director at ITER is bringing its existence into the limelight. 
In this interview, we speak about not only the challenges, but also his objectives and personal motivations for the organization. 

A hands-on introduction to ITER, the world’s largest nuclear fusion experiment that is taking place in the south of France, where the host, Kruti Mawani Fayot goes on a tour on-site with her personal guide from ITER Communications - Anna Bondyreva, and gets to speak with experts that work at the heart of this organisation.

This episode explores the multicultural community at ITER and what it takes for people from 35 nations to succeed in collaborating together on such an incredible and complex project. We speak with Eric Welch, the head of HR, the Welcome Office team from the Agence ITER, as well as Ms. Laura Benjannin, head of the unique international school in Manosque that was specially created for the ITER families' children.