Newsletter | 2003 August
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New EFDA Leader appointed
Prof. Minh-Quang Tran, head of the “Centre de Recherches en Physique des Plasmas (CRPP)” at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, has been appointed the new EFDA leader and will take up the position on October 1st. The decision was taken at the EFDA Steering Committee meeting which [...]
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ITER Negotiations: P -1 Meeting at Vienna
On 19th June 2003 the first Preparatory Meeting (P-1) for ITER Decision Making was held at the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) in Vienna (Austria). At this meeting the Republic of Korea joined Canada, the European Union, Japan, the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the United States [...]
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30th EPS Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics
The 30th European Physical Society (EPS) Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics was held, during the week of July 7 – 11, 2003, in St. Petersburg (Russian Federation), a very special and prestigious host for this event since Peter the Great’s “Paradise” and “Venice of the North” celebrates this [...]
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“It was time to make a move ” – Korea joins the ITER project
EFDA Newsletter (EN): Your country officially joined ITER P1 negotiation meeting in Vienna, Austria, on June 19 and plans to join the ITER project as a partner. How long has Korea been working on this decision and has the last push been influenced by China and the US recently joining? [...]
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First ITER NB Injector and the ITER NB Test Facility
A 1 MeV-neutral beam injection system planned for ITER has to operate on the basis of “negative ion technology”, i.e. the acceleration and neutralisation of negative rather than positive hydrogen or deuterium ions as on most present NB systems today. R&D is in progress in Europe and in Japan on [...]
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Lower Hybrid Wave Launcher Prototype at Frascati (Italy)
The Lower Hybrid (LH) wave is a plasma wave of frequency between the ion and electron cyclotron resonance frequencies. An LH launched from the plasma boundary can accelerate electrons along the field lines and thereby drive current in the plasma. This method, called Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) has the [...]
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Association Day on Plasma Physics at Association Euratom-ÖAW
On 20th May 2003 the Association EURATOM-ÖAW organised its annual Association Day on Plasma Physics, which was hosted this year by the Institut für Allgemeine Physik at TU Wien. At this meeting, scientists from Vienna, Innsbruck and Graz presented their current contributions to the EU Fusion Physics Programme. Dr. Alberto [...]
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Summer Training Course on the CASTOR Tokamak
Operation of the next step fusion devices, such as ITER, will require a new generation of physicists, which are familiar with all aspects of experimental work on tokamaks. Their practical education can be accelerated substantially by getting them in a direct touch with experimental reality. For that purpose, small-scale experiments [...]
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Investigations on Chemical Erosion and Hydrocarbon Film Formation at IPP-Berlin
The plasma generator PSI run by the Berlin (Germany) division of Association Euratom- IPP is a stationary high current arc discharge in an axial magnetic field. This facility allows the production of a stationary plasma column of about 2 m in length and 8 cm in diameter. It is used [...]
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25 June 2003: a Special Day at JET
From the words that P.-H. Rebut (a former director of JET) has written to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first plasma at JET it is easy to understand that it was a day of great excitement. At that time the machine was such a complex system that all sorts [...]
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More than 30 years for fusion – Michel Huguet leaves ITER Naka
EFDA Newsletter (E.N.): You started your scientific career at the Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité in Paris (France) and you complete it as Head of the ITER Joint Work Site at Naka (Japan). The distance between Paris and Naka is about 10 000 km. What were for you the most important milestones [...]
