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Newsletter | 2005 February

  • Interview with Dr. Janez Potočnik – EU Commissioner for Science and Research

    Bridging the gap with the public EFDA Newsletter (E.N.): During FP6 the big European challenge in the field of energy (e.g. security of supply, acceptability, sustainability) have come out in full. Being an economist yourself, what are your ideas to tackle this issue? Janez Potočnik (J.P.): Well, the escalation of [...]

  • 16th Association Day of the Association EURATOM-ÖAW

    On 30th November 2004 the Association EURATOM-ÖAW (Vienna, Austria) organised her annual Association Day on Fusion Technology, which was hosted by TU-Wien/Atominstitut. At this meeting Austrian contributions to the EFDA Technology Work Programme 2004 and to the Underlying Technology Programme were presented and discussed by the respectively involved junior and [...]

  • High-power tests of the ITER Remote Steering Launcher mock-up at IPP Greifswald

    The ITER Experimental Reactor will be equipped with a 24 MW Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ECRH) system operating at 170 GHz. The unique ECRH properties of very localised heating and current drive in the plasma are well suited to satisfying various physics requirements such as start-up assist, bulk-heating, current drive [...]

  • Fusion Technology at JET

    Increasing the use of the JET facilities for Fusion Technology R&D in preparation of ITER was one of the key objectives assigned to EFDA in 1999. For this purpose, the JET Fusion Technology Task Force (TF-FT) was set-up in 2000 when JET started being used under EFDA. Over the last [...]

  • Workshop on the future of scientific and technological research in Europe

    In his welcome address G. Sergio, USF President, recalled the outcome of the Lisbon meeting in 2000 where the European Council agreed on a strategic goal for the present decade: ‘to become the most dynamic and competitive knowledge – based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with [...]