Newsletter | 2000 August

• JET–EP News

  The JET-Enhanced Performance (EP) project received a positive recommendation by the CCE-FU on 11 July 2000. The main objectives of the proposed enhancements are: to consolidate the preparation of ITER operating scenarios by increasing the present operating domain of ELMy H-modes (the reference mode of operation of ITER) and further expanding the range [...]

• Highlights of First Campaigns

  TASK FORCE S1 Task force S1 has been concentrating mainly on reaching high density high confinement plasmas. Among the different techniques which have been tried are impurity seeding, high gas puff with strong heating and varying the plasma shape. All methods have shown to be beneficial. An example of a discharge obtained with strong [...]

• Visitors book

  Over 350 people visited the JET facilities over the summer. These included three MEPs, E Seppanen (Finland), K Alyddandraskis (Geeece) and Peter Skinner (UK), journalist Dinah Greek (Professional Engineering) and a large number of schools and universities from all over Europe. Many thanks to the members of JOC, CSU and Task forces [...]

• Publications

  At the time this bulletin nr. 2 has been produced, the first experimental campaign C1 under EFDA had been successfully concluded and the second one, C2, was in full swing. Already 18 papers were submitted to the Americal Physical Society meeting in Quebec, Canada. Meanwhile the SOFT conference in Madrid and the [...]

• Message from the EFDA Associate Leader for JET

  The first bulletin was announcing the start of the first Experimental Campaign conducted on the JET facilities under the new EFDA framework. After nearly four months of experiments, we are pleased to present, in this second Bulletin, an overview of the first results. These are quite promising and one can already say [...]