Newsletter | 2002 December

• 2002 JET Enhancements

  Systems installed and brought to operation in 2002 Quartz Micro-Balance (see figure): measurements of carbon deposition in the shadowed region on a shot-to-shot basis. This is related to tritium retention, an important ITER issue. Reciprocating Probe Head Upgrade (see figure): measurements of plasma edge quantities like Ti, Te, impurities, mass [...]

• 2002 JET Fusion Technology

  The JET Fusion Technology (FT) programme covers R&D areas that can provide relevant contributions to the research programme of both JET and ITER in the following fields: Tritium distribution in the Tokamak: analysis of tiles and flakes Tritium processes and waste management: water detritiation R&D and system design, test of [...]

• Highlights of 2002 Campaigns

  The removal of the septum during the 2001 shutdown has increased the flexibility in plasma shape. New plasma configurations have been developed including a high triangularity configuration with reduced disruptive forces (HT3), which will make it possible to extend the high performance studies of ITER like configurations to higher current. In this new HT3 configuration, the [...]

• User’s Web site

  The EFDA-JET Users website http://users.jet.efda.org allows scientific, technical, social and administrative in-formation to be readily shared amongst EFDA-JET staff, the fusion community and fusion associates. It isn’t accessible to the general public but if you’re at the JET Facilities, have a web password or a SecurID card then all the pages can be [...]

• Derek Robinson

  Dr. Derek Charles Robinson, Director of the EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association and Culham Science Centre died at the age of 61 on Monday 2 December 2002 in Oxford. Derek Robinson’s exceptional ability to work both as a theoretical and an experimental physicist was characteristic of his entire career. More recently Derek played a [...]

• People

  New Task Force Leaders During Campaigns C6 and C7 (2002 Workprogramme), Simon Pinches (IPP) replaced Sibylle Günter (IPP) as Deputy Task Force Leader in Task Force M and Xavier Litaudon (CEA) acted as Task Force Leader in Task Force S2 in the absence of Robert Wolf (IPP). The EFDA Steering Committee approved the appointments of [...]

• JET Operation

  The JET operation in 2002 was far from being smooth but all the actors (Operator, Task Forces and Close Support Unit) reacted with great flexibility. This has allowed to go ahead with the experimental campaigns and obtain a number of important scientific results. After the 2001 shutdown the Restart activity campaign C5 [...]

• Events

  European Science and Technology week – Couldn’t Be Without It! As part of a major initiative for European Science and Technology week 4-10 November a Europe-wide poll “Couldn’t be without it!” was carried out on-line at www.cern.ch/sci-tech. This was initiated by EIROFORUM, a collaboration of seven European research organisations of which EFDA [...]

• VIPs at JET

  March: Den Dover, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) April: Robert Key, MP and Roger Helmer, MEP May: François-Xavier De Donnea, Belgian Minister for Research June: UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee September: Luigi Amaduzzi, Italian Ambassador Groupe Permanent DOS ITER, Cadarache French licensing Authorities, Cadarache November: Lord Sainsbury, UK [...]