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• Departing EFDA Leader will Continue to Support ITER through Active Research

  “With December 31, 2002 I am leaving EFDA to return to my research position with the Max- Planck Institut für Plasmaphysik in Garching. Dr. Jérôme Pamela, EFDA Associate Leader for JET, will fill, ad interim, also the EFDA Leader’s position, until the nomination of a definitive successor. When I joined [...]

• “The main thing is that ITER is built and that this happens in Europe!”

  EFDA Newsletter (E.N.): Imagine you had to direct an advertising film, which presents Vandellòs or Cadarache as the favorite ITER site. What, in your opinion, would be the best title for such a film? Carlos Alejaldre: I guess it could be “Fusion is the origin of the sun and Vandellòs [...]

• 5th Negotiations Meeting, Canada: Successful Launch of Site Assessment Process

  Momentum towards construction of the ITER fusion project increased as delegations from Canada, the European Union, Japan and the Russian Federation met from September 17 – 18 in Toronto to negotiate the implementation of the project. A notable accomplishment in the framework of the Negotiations was the start of the [...]

• 6th Negotiations Meeting, Japan: Assessment Completed for Two of Four Potential ITER Sites

  At their Sixth Negotiations meeting on October 29 – 30 in Rokkasho-mura the delegations continued to progress towards implementation of the project. M. Kimura, the Governor of Aomori Prefecture, emphasized that Aomori would like to host ITER and contribute to the international community through the promotion of the project. Further [...]

• ITER Awareness Workshop for Industry

  An international workshop was hosted on 22 October in the Baylis Conference Centre, Slough by UKAEA Culham Division’s Fusion and Industry team. With the decision on whether and where to build ITER expected within a year, the Euratom-UKAEA Association brought together the ITER Director and senior ITER project managers from [...]

• Commissioner Busquin visits TEXTOR

  On September 10, 2002 Philippe Busquin (fourth from left), EU Commissioner for Research, visited TEXTOR, together with (from left to right) Prof. U. Samm (Division Manager IPP Jülich), MdB D. Nietan (German Member of Parliament) and Prof. R. Weynants (Division Manager Ecole Royale Militaire/KMS Belgium). Mr Busquin was especially interested [...]

• FZ Jülich Provides a New European Team Research Leader

  Dr. V. Philipps from the Institute for Plasma Physics at the Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ) has recently been appointed by EFDA to be the leader of the new task force for “Plasma-Wall Interaction” until the end of 2004. The setting up of this joint European team demonstrates the importance for ITER [...]

• New European Task Force on Plasma-Wall Interaction (PWI) Created by EFDA

  The European Task Force is motivated by the large extension of the plasma duty cycle, i.e. pulse length, expected in ITER compared with present devices. This requires essential knowledge to be acquired for the operation of ITER with respect to the expectations of the plasma-facing components lifetime (divertor and main [...]

• Real-time Feedback Control of the Pressure and Current Density Profiles

  The development of steady state operational regimes with improved confinement and stability is known as “advanced tokamak” research. In JET advanced tokamak research mainly focuses on plasmas with internal transport barriers (ITBs), generated by modifications of the current density profile in the plasma core. New realtime measurements and feedback control [...]

• FP6 Launch: EFDA Round Tables at the European Research Conference

  A major conference was held by the European Commission in Bruxelles from 11 to 13 November 2002 to mark the start of the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme for research, which will cover the period from 2002 to 2006. Approx. 9,000 visitors took part in this event, which was located in [...]

• Top Experts in the World of Fusion Technology gathered in Helsinki

  SOFT 2002 was officially opened by Dr. Sinikka Mönkäre, the Finnish Minister of Trade and Industry, who repeated the support of her Government to this kind of research. Dr. J.P. Rager (European Commission) presented the latest developments of the European Fusion Programme, while Prof. W.D’Haeseleer of the University of Leuven [...]

• “Couldn’t be without it”: Science for Next Generation “Internauts”

  The two winners of the Italian webcast from a secondary school in Modena, were offered by EFDA a trip to Oxford (UK) for a visit to the JET tokamak located on the Culham site. During the English Webcast a live connection to JET gave the possibility to Dr. J. Pamela, [...]

• What is the difference between a machine like JET and ITER?

  The JET tokamak, in operation since 1983, has provided important results which give a high degree of confidence in the feasibility of magnetic fusion reactor physics. JET, for instance, has proven the principle of plasma self-heating by fusion reactions. However, in steady state only about 18% of the total power [...]

• Will all ITER parties have t he same rights to use the machine for their research purposes?

  Negotiations among the current participants (i.e. Canada, the EU, Japan and the Russian Federation) started in 2001 towards an agreement for the joint implementation of ITER. Other countries (i.e. USA and China) are considering joining. All the countries, which provide the financial support for the construction and operation of the [...]

• Industry has helped the laboratories to build the current fusion devices and to develop the technology for fusion research. Did industry itself benefit from this relationship?

  The benefit achieved by industry in its co-operation with the fusion laboratories is twofold. The direct advantage is due to the know-how accumulated on the topic while working together with fusion experts, both physicists and engineers. This has allowed industry to increase its knowledge in all critical aspects linked to [...]