Newsletter | 2003 June
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ITER Competitiveness Council
Presenting a communication on the construction and operation of ITER to the Competitiveness Council on 13 May in Brussels (Belgium), EU Commissioner for Research Philippe Busquin outlined the ongoing negotiations concerning the selection of a candidate site in Europe. Two possible locations, Cadarache in France and Vandellós in Spain have [...]
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NSSG-8 Subgroup Meeting at IPP Garching (Germany)
During the 19th and 20th of May 2003 the Eighth Meeting of the Negotiators Standing Sub-Group (NSSG) took place at the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (Garching, Germany). The meeting was originally scheduled in Canada one month earlier but had to be rescheduled due to the SARS problem in Toronto. The meeting [...]
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IEA Meeting of the Governing Board at Ministerial Level
The energy ministers of IEA (International Energy Agency) Member countries met in Paris (France) on 28-29 April 2003 and agreed that Energy Security, Environmental Protection and Economic Growth remain the IEA’s robust guiding principles for energy policy. They underlined their readiness to combat any disruption of oil supplies, while recognizing [...]
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“Let’s keep all doors open to provide energy for our future”
EFDA Newsletter (E.N.): You are an expert in the field of nuclear fission, but also chairman of EFET, which has participated in the engineering design activities for ITER. What are the main technology achievements associated with your work in nuclear fission which were of benefit for the ITER project? A.V.: [...]
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Options for the Development of Improved Conductors for the ITER Magnets
During May 6. – 9. 2003 a meeting to review the achievements in the ITER magnet research & development (R&D) programme over the last 10 years was held at EFDA CSU Garching (Germany). Representatives from the ITER-International Team (IT), and the Participating Teams from Europe, Japan, Russian Federation and the [...]
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Third Track for Pellet Fuelling
The injection of frozen deuterium pellets at high speed into tokamak discharges has the potential for more efficient fuelling than the puffing of deuterium gas. The JET programme is investigating the dependence of pellet penetration on three different injection geometries. The first JET experimental campaign of 2003 benefited from the [...]
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Consorzio RFX Padova – Fusion in Italy
The RFX (Reversed Field Experiment) device entered into operation in 1992. Since then, it has produced more than 10.000 pulses of ~100 ms with toroidal plasma currents of ~1.1 MA, with significant results in the fields of MHD physics, transport mechanisms and turbulence control. The substantial progress obtained in the [...]
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IEA Ministerial Governing Board Meeting Fair
The IEA (International Energy Agency) Ministerial Governing Board Meeting took place in Paris on April 28 and 29, 2003, attracting high level representatives from all IEA member states. In parallel with the meeting an Energy Technology Collaboration Fair was organised to show the activities which are being promoted by various [...]
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EFDA at the World SUSTAINable Energy Exhibition & Conference 2003
Technical Innovations, environmental aspects, financial issues and policy matters – SUSTAIN is a biannual international conference and tradeshow where trends in the area of sustainable energy, particularly industrial aspects, and energy efficiency are brought together. Supported by the European Commission, the 4th event of this kind took place on May [...]
