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Newsletter | 2002 March

  • Foreword

    Foreword The preparation of ITER operating scenarios on JET and other European devices is proceeding vigorously: during the EFDA-JET 2000-2001 experimental programme the longest internal transport barriers to be produced in a tokamak so far were observed, and three promising H-mode operational scenarios have also been developed for applicationon ITER. [...]

  • Fusion Budget in the 6th EU Research Framework Programme 2002-2006

    On 10 December 2001 the EU Council of Ministers reached an agreement in Brussels on the budget for the 6th Research Framework Programme, allocating EURO 750 million to controlled thermonuclear fusion in the EURATOM Framework Programme. The final agreement is expected later this year. For more details check the Website [...]

  • Full Set of Divertor Prototypes made in Europe

    During the ITER EDA (Engineering Design Activities) and CTA (Coordinated Technical Activities) Europe has developed an extensive R&D programme which included the manufacturing of a complete set of full-scale prototypes for each divertor component. To mark the occasion a special event was held on 16 January 2002, an “EU Divertor [...]

  • A fast Track for fusion

    At the end of 2001, the EU Council of Ministers requested that a group of experts, chaired by Prof. David King, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, be set up to examine the possibility of a fast track towards fusion energy production. The conclusions of the panel were an [...]

  • News from Japan: Second Negotiation Meeting on ITER Site Selection

    The second Negotiation Meeting to continue the formal negotiations on the Joint Implementation Agreement of the ITER project was held in Tokyo on 22 to 23 January 2002. The main subject of the meeting was a preliminary draft of the Agreement, which will govern the construction, operation and decommissioning on [...]

  • Progress in France: ITER Site Studies in Cadarache

    Cadarache fulfills all ITER requirements. This is the conclusion of the first step of the ITER site studies that has now been completed and the documentation delivered to EFDA in November 2001. A Preliminary analysis of the safety and environmental impact around Cadarache (“Dossier d’Options de Sûreté”) has been carried [...]

  • Progress in the Spanish Site Studies

    CIEMAT (Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Mediambientales y Tecnológicas) are currently carrying out studies to assess the possibility of Spain offering a site for ITER. Under consideration is the former nuclear reactor site of Vandellós I (Cataluña), currently being decommissioned, and a second possibility is near Valencia. Preliminary industrial studies have [...]

  • Highlights on JET

    The present work on JET is directed primarily towards the preparation of ITER operation and is focused on the so-called ELMy H-mode which offers a well-established path to the ITER design target of a 10-fold amplification of the input power through fusion reactions (Q=10). Beyond this, however, ITER will also [...]

  • Important results in advanced tokamak experiments

    At the American Physical Society Plasma Physics Conference in Long Beach, California in October 2001, a paper on the progress made on internal transport barrier plasmas in JET was presented. The main goal of advanced tokamak experiments is to obtain plasmas with fully non-inductive current, as opposed to the more [...]

  • Progress in developing ITER scenarios in JET

    During the past two years at JET under EFDA three promising H-mode operational scenarios have been further developed. The results were the simultaneous realization of high density and confinement as required for ITER. A first method showed that by increasing the plasma triangularity, strong gas puffing does not deteriorate confinement [...]

  • MAST: Experimental campaign successfully completed

    The 2001 experimental campaign on the MAST (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) at Culham was completed on 16th November. An important achievement during the campaign was the first injection of Deuterium Neutral Beam power into the plasma (up to 1.5 MW) with neutron emissions consistent with predictions. The multiple pellet injector [...]

  • Austrian Association Day on Fusion: Technology at the cutting edge

    The fifth annual “Association Day on Fusion Technology” of the Association EURATOMÖAW took place on 7 December 2001 and was for the second time hosted by Plansee AG in Reutte, Tyrol (Austria). In co-operation with the Erich Schmid Institut für Materialwissenschaft of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Leoben, Plansee [...]

  • Energy for the future: IPP celebrates multiple anniversary

    On 30 October 2001 the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (Association EURATOM-IPP) at Garching celebrated four anniversaries at one go. Approximately 800 employees and guests celebrated the 40th anniversary of the founding of the institute, the 30th anniversary of its becoming member of the Max-Planck-Society, the world’s first demonstration of “real” [...]

  • Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) Experiments in FTU

    At present, FTU at the Centro Ricerche Energia (Association EURATOM-ENEA) in Frascati is the only high magnetic toroidal field tokamak operating in Europe (up to 8 Tesla, 1.6 MA) extending the database on confinement and heating necessary for ITER to high magnetic field and high-density regimes. The FTU (Frascati Tokamak [...]

  • Gender equality: A lot done, a lot still to do

    EFDA Newsletter (E.N.): You are working in a men’s world – why did you choose a technical subject to study? Gabriella Saibene (G.S.): Well, I liked it and I was very lucky in my scientific high school in Italy. I had very good teachers, in particular in maths and physics. [...]

  • EFDA at AOG Expo 2001 in Buenos Aires

    EFDA participated in the Argentina Oil & Gas (AOG) Expo 2001, which was organized together with the 18th World Energy Congress (WEC) and held in Buenos Aires (21 – 25 October 2001). The stand was sponsored by the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics (Association EURATOM-IPP) in Garching, Germany. Through exhibiting at [...]

  • Physics on Stage …

    Physics on Stage … is an educational outreach initiative of European Intergovernmental Research Organizations for European physics educators. It was set up by three leading organizations (ESA, ESO, CERN) in 2000 to give teachers from 22 European countries the opportunity to take part in national programmes and international festivals to [...]