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• ITER Negotiations: Growing International Interest in Participating

  At their seventh Negotiations Meeting on 2nd of December 2002 in Barcelona (Spain) the delegations from Canada, the European Union, Japan and the Russian Federation saw progress on a number of fronts towards the implementation of the ITER project. Josep Piqué, Spanish Minister of Science and Technology, emphasized the unconditional [...]

• TEXTOR Officially Re-opened after Dynamic Ergodic Divertor (DED) Installation

  On 6th December 2002 Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) inaugurated a development which is unique within the worldwide fusion effort. The Dynamic Ergodic Divertor (DED) has been installed in the TEXTOR tokamak to improve the control of the fusion process, especially addressing the transport of energy, heat and particles in the plasma [...]

• “The best image of a strong and efficient programme drives fusion ahead”

  EFDA Newsletter (E.N.): Your professional career started in the field of Aeronautics, which is – together with Energy – one of the 7 main themes of the European Commission’s FP6. Which parallels do you see between these two fields? Pablo Fernandez Ruiz: Aeronautics and Energy are both fields of considerable [...]

• FZ Karlsruhe: Testing of the Toroidal Field Model Coil successfully completed

  The ITER Toroidal Field Model Coil (TFMC) was built by European industry according to the conceptual design, which was elaborated by the European Associations under the coordination of EFDA. The objective of the project is to develop and demonstrate the superconducting magnet technology to a level that will allow the [...]

• Lord Sainsbury visits the Culham Science Center (UK)

  The UKAEA and JET facilities at Culham (UK) welcomed a prominent visitor on 29th November. Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Her Majesty’s Parliamentary Under Secretary, was briefed on current developments in fusion research, including the status of planning for the ITER and the ‘Fast Track’ proposed by the European Expert Group [...]

• A significant Step in the Coordination of Tokamak Experiments at World Level

  A unique and successful meeting was held at MIT in Cambrige (USA) on 18/19 November 2002 to consider the coordinated implementation of high priority burning tokamak plasma research on the major world tokamaks. The leaders of these facilities (JET and ASDEX Upgrade from Europe; JT-60U from Japan; and DIII-D, C-Mod [...]

• Lithium – Czech Republic can help to provide the fuel of the future

  Lithium is the lightest of all metals, with a density only about half that of water. It does not occur in the metallic form, but is found as chemical compounds in small amounts in nearly all ingeous rock and in the waters of many mineral springs, so that there are [...]

• ASDEX-Upgrade: Experimental Programme: stronger Role of Associations

  Strong links to the EU and world wide tokamak programmes already existed on ASDEX Upgrade (Garching, Germany), but the present initiative greatly improves both the rights and the responsibilities of the collaborating EU Associations. The experimental programme is now decided by the ASDEX Upgrade Programme Committee, which consists at present [...]

• Visit of Delegation from Finland in Garching

  A delegation from Finland representing industry and contributors to Finnish Fusion Society visited the Association Euratom-IPP, the ITER International Team and the EFDA CSU on 2 December 2002 in Garching (Germany). Their goal was to find out how their companies and associations could contribute to the skills and technologies of [...]

• Fusion Research Activities in China

  A contribution from Prof. Huo Yuping, ZhengZhou University (People’s Republic of China) China is the largest developing country with a projected population of 1.6 – 2 billion people and with an energy consumption growing from the current 1.3 Billion Tons Coal Equivalent (TCE) to more than 4 Billion TCE by [...]

• UKAEA Culham mourns for Dr. Derek Robinson FRS

  Dr. Derek C. Robinson, Director of the UKAEA Fusion Programme and Culham Science Centre, died on Monday 2 December 2002, in Oxford. After gaining a First Class Physics degree at the University of Manchester in 1962 he embarked upon his career in fusion research with a PhD which involved the [...]

• Dr. Robert Aymar to be next Director General of CERN

  The CERN Council, where the representatives of the 20 Member States of the Organization decide on scientific programmes and financial resources, elected Dr. Robert Aymar to succeed Prof. L. Maiani as CERN’s Director General. Dr. Aymar, Director of the ITER International Team, is foreseen to take office on 1 January [...]

• Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award for Dr. Gianfranco Federici

  The Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award 2002 of the Fusion Energy Division of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) was presented to Dr. Gianfranco Federici (ITER International Team, Garching, Germany). This award was given in recognition of his contributions in the area of theoretical and computational research on plasma-wall materials interactions that [...]