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• P-2.5 Meeting in Vienna (4-5 December 2003)

  On 4-5th December 2003, a preparatory meeting for the ministerial meeting for ITER was held at the headquaters of the IAEA in Vienna (Austria). Common Message from Preparatory Meeting for Ministerial Meeting for ITER Delegations from Canada, China, European Union, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, and the [...]

• JET successfully completes the Trace Tritium Experiments

  The JET ‘Trace Tritium Experiments’ (TTE) Campaign was completed successfully. It was the first use of tritium in JET experiments under the EFDA organisation. On 1 November, the JET ‘Trace Tritium Experiments’ (TTE) Campaign was brought to a successful conclusion. This Campaign marked the first use of tritium in JET [...]

• Minister Haigneré calls on mobilization around Cadarache candidacy

  On November 27, Claudie Haigneré, French Minister for Research and New Technologies, in her visit to Cadarache (France) called on mobilization around Europe’s candidacy for the ITER project in Cadarache. At the Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels, on November 26, C. Haigneré had announced: “I am delighted that Europe has [...]

• Ninth ITER Negotiations Meeting in China

  Delegations from Canada, the People’s Republic of China, the European Union, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation and the United States of America met in Bejing (China) on November 9 – 10, 2003 to continue their efforts to reach agreement on the implementation of the international fusion energy [...]

• First place for ITER in the US

  The US Department of Energy has put ITER in first place in its list of research facilities to be funded in the near term.

• 3-D X-Ray Microtomography at MEC Romania

  At the National Institute of Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics (NILPRP) Association Euratom-MEC in Bucharest (Romania) a laboratory for microtomography was established during 2001-2002 with European Community support (EFDA Newsletter, Vol. 2003/2, April 5, 2003). Its research is focused on the project ”Non-destructive analysis of fusion materials samples by X-ray [...]

• Wendelstein 7-X: first stellarator coils now being tested

  The WENDELSTEIN 7-X stellarator will test an optimised magnetic field configuration: the quality of plasma equilibrium and confinement will be comparable to that of a tokamak. With discharges lasting up to 30 minutes, WENDELSTEIN 7-X is to demonstrate the essential property of stellarators, viz. continuous operation. Thus, WENDELSTEIN 7-X will [...]

• German ITER Industry Workshop at FZ Karlsruhe

  Almost one hundred participants, of which 66 represented industrial companies, gathered in Karlsruhe (Germany) on October 27-28 at the “German ITER Industry Workshop”. On behalf of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) the meeting was organized by the Euratom Association Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (FZK). The aim was to inform German [...]

• Rimini – Gdansk – Budapest: Fusion Expo on Tour

  In the month of August the Fusion Expo, the traveling exhibition of EFDA, changed its logistics centre. After more than three years in Cadarache (France) it is now sited in Padova (Italy) under the coordination of Euratom Association ENEA – Consorzio RFX. Immediately following the change of site, the Expo [...]

• Royal / Shell Prize 2003 for Niek Lopes Cardozo

  On November the 12th, the 44th Royal / Shell Prize for 2003 has been awarded to Prof. Niek Lopes Cardozo, head of fusion research at the Association Euratom-FOM Institute for Plasma Physics Rijnhuizen in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. The Royal / Shell Prize is given each year to scientists who have [...]

• In Memoriam: Marshall Rosenbluth

  On September 28, 2003, Prof. Marshall Rosenbluth, a towering figure in the field of nuclear fusion and plasma physics, passed away aged 76. His life in fusion spanned more than 50 years. Born in Albany, New York (US), he graduated from Harvard in 1946 and worked for his physics PhD [...]

• Competitiveness Council of Ministers selects European ITER site

  The Council decided unanimously to amend the Commission’s negotiation directives on the establishment of an international framework concerning ITER authorizing the Commission to put forward Cadarache (France) as the European candidate site. The Council also decided unanimously that the ITER European Legal Entity (ELE) will be located in Spain. The [...]