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Newsletter | 2002 June

  • ITER: Third Negotiation Meeting

    Delegations from Canada, the European Union, Japan and the Russian Federation met in Moscow on April 7-12, 2002 to continue formal negotiations on the joint implementation of the ITER project. This was the third Negotiation meeting in a series that is expected to lead, by the end of 2002, to [...]

  • France confirms proposal of Cadarache to Host ITER

    The former French Minister of Research, Roger-Gérard Schwartzenberg, has written, on May 3rd, to Commissioner Busquin to thank him for his reply to the request formulated by France at the December Research Council. He also notes the Spanish declaration as a new manifestation of the strong support of the EU [...]

  • Spanish government offers Vandellós as ITER site

    On April 17th, the Government of Spain formally offered to the European Union its site at Vandellós to be evaluated as a possible European site for ITER. This proposal results from the technical and socio economic study co-ordinated by CIEMAT in collaboration with several institutions and industry. The Government also [...]

  • Status of the Development of the Toroidal Field Model Coil

    The Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) is one of the seven large ITER Research and Development (R&D) projects. Its objective is to develop and demonstrate the superconducting magnet technology to a level that will allow the ITER Nb3Sn toroidal field coils to be built with confidence. The current of 80 [...]

  • European Industry celebrates Full Set of ITER Divertor

    On 16 January 2002, an “EU Divertor Celebration Day” with 30 participants was organized at Plansee AG (Reutte, Austria) to mark the end of the successful manufacturing activities (undertaken by EFDA) for the ITER large R&D project on the divertor. Both Plansee AG and Ansaldo Ricerche (Genoa, Italy) contributed to [...]

  • Magnets Made in Italy: The Role of Ansaldo

    Ansaldo (Genoa, Italy) has been involved in the European Fusion Programme since the Eighties, in particular the Magnet Department which is now a separate company named Ansaldo Superconduttori. They manufactured the resistive and superconducting coils for most of the European experiments on fusion, such as ASDEX Upgrade, Tore Supra, Frascati [...]

  • New Quartz micro-balance device: Successful from shot to shot

    When hydrogen plasma interacts in JET with the carbon divertor target plates, amorphous hydrocarbon films are deposited, particularly in the pump duct region of the inner divertor. These films can trap large quantities of tritium and are therefore a key area of research in support of ITER, due to safety [...]

  • New spectrometer installed for the study of pellet ablation

    A new spectrometer, provided by the Plasma Physics Laboratory of Princeton University (New Jersey, USA), has been installed during the last shutdown at JET. This new instrument provides a detailed spectrum of the pellet ablation light and allows improved studies of the processes involved in the ablation of injected pellets. [...]

  • News from Error Field Correction Coils Project

    Non axi-symmetric magnetic fields can be responsible for the onset of large locked modes in tokamak discharges, which in turn often trigger disruptions. The internal saddle coils on JET have been used to study the generation and correction of error fields. However, these internal coils had technical problems and therefore [...]

  • INDIA: Energy Developments for a Growing Nation

    What role could fusion power plants play in the future energy supply of India as a country with one of the fastest growing populations? How will the energy needs of India develop in general up to 2100 and which technologies are therefore required? How do these facts influence the production [...]

  • EFDA at Physics on Stage 2

    Physics on Stage 2 (PoS-2), an initiative for European physics educators, took place at ESTEC in Noordwijk (Netherlands) on April 2-6, 2002. CERN, ESO and ESA originally set up this annual event as part of the European Week for Science and Technology 2000. It is one of the milestones of [...]

  • “It is said that the US may reconsider its withdrawal from the ITER project. What is the status on this?”

    The US were partners in the ITER project until 1999. They then left the project for different reasons. While, at that time, the scientific and technical developments for the first (the “big”) ITER project had been successfully concluded, the political and economic boundary conditions for the project had deteriorated. Moreover, [...]

  • United States engaged in serious consultations on ITER

    “President Bush is particularly interested in the potential of the international effort know as ITER and has asked us to seriously consider American participation.” Secretary of Energy, Mr. S. Abraham at the Conference of G8 Energy Ministers, Detroit, May 2, 2002. For the full text see: http://www.energy.gov/HQDocs/speeches/2002/mayss/PublicEnergyForumLunch.html