Newsletter | 2004 February
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Roadmap on ITER negotiations
The recent ITER Ministerial Meeting, which took place in Washington the 20th of December 2003 resulted in a Joint Communiqué which, amongst other matters, asks “…the ITER Team in conjunction with the ITER Parties to conduct a rapid exploration of the advantages of a broader project approach to fusion power.” [...]
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JOINT COMMUNIQUE From the Ministerial Meeting for ITER
The Six Parties have reached as trong consensus on a number of points. We have two excellent sites for ITER, so excellent in fact that we need further evaluation before making our decisions based on consensus. We have agreed to provide the remaining questions to the candidate host parties by [...]
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Timetable to ITER implementation
1) The ITER Parties must first reach a consensus on the preferred site for ITER 2) The draft agreement must then be completed, and submitted to the Parties authorities 3) In Europe, the Council of Ministers must approve conclusion of the agreement followed with the Commission signing the agreement. 4) [...]
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Persuading other governments to take fusion more seriously
EFDA Newsletter (EN): Prof. Llewellyn Smith, you were awarded a knighthood in 2001- can we expect you now to be something like a “white knight” for nuclear fusion after being successful in particle physics? Chris Llewellyn Smith (CLS): I’m new to fusion, of course, but I bring with me from [...]
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ÖAW: 14th Association Day on Fusion Technology
On 28th November 2003 the Association Euratom-ÖAW (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften – Austrian Academy of Sciences) organised its annual Association Day on Fusion Technology, which was hosted by the Austrian Research Center Seibersdorf. At this meeting current contributions to the EFDA Technology Work Programme and Underlying Technology Programme were presented [...]
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ECRH on TCV tokamak – an ITER relevant system
Electron cyclotron (EC) heating in a magnetised plasma is performed by launching a radio-frequency (RF) wave which is resonant with the plasma electrons having a cyclotron frequency, fcycl, (or integer multiple of fcycl) equal to the RF. The cyclotron frequency is proportional to the local magnetic field amplitude (fcycl = [...]
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Successful test of the ITER lower hybrid launcher prototype on FTU
The Frascati Tokamak Upgrade (FTU) at the Association Euratom – ENEA in Frascati (Italy) has successfully tested a prototype of the Lower Hybrid wave launcher presently considered for ITER: the Passive-Active Multijunction (PAM). The PAM is a slow-wave structure in which the active waveguides (which transmit the RF power) are [...]
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Workshop: What role can fusion energy play in developing countries?
The development of nuclear fusion is expected to reach new dimensions with the construction of the ITER experiment, which will be able to demonstrate the proof of principle for nuclear fusion. The question then arises as to what benefits and what kind of problems would be connected to the widespread [...]
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Artificial diamonds for neutrons A successful test on JET of artificial diamonds as a neutron diagnostic for ITER
The high neutron fluxes of burning plasmas will be an essential source of information to assess the performance and properties of ITER discharges. Therefore, neutron diagnostics are expected to play a key role in ITER and the possibility of testing them in advance is one of the reasons for the [...]
