Newsletter | 2005 October
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Official Opening of the EFDA CSU Office in Barcelona
As expected and without delay, on the 1st of September the EFDA Close Support Unit office in Barcelona (Spain) was officially opened and became operational. Located in the new business district of the city, denominated 22@, the new office enjoys a superb location in front of the Mediterranean Sea. This [...]
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Sir David King: A Champion for Fusion
Prof Sir David King gave this interview on 22 September 2005. EFDA Newsletter would like to record their thanks to Sir David for being so generous with his time. EFDA Newsletter (EN) During your time as Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, the issues of energy and climate change [...]
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High-power test facility in operation at Association EURATOM-IPP
Europe’s most modern facility for testing large, heat-resistant components used in fusion devices is now in operation at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Garching (Germany).The GLADIS (Garching Large Divertor Sample) test facility is suitable for investigating not only small samples but also large components with their own [...]
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Enhancements for JET: High Frequency Pellet Injector
One of the main plasma fuelling methods in a tokamak is the injection of deuterium ice pellets at high velocity. This technique allows direct fuelling of the plasma core as well as the possibility of mitigating plasma instabilities such as Edge Localised Modes (ELM). The control of the ELM activity [...]
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Enhancements for JET: JET Plasma Control Upgrade
Shaped tokamak plasmas are unstable to vertical displacements of the plasma column, therefore, requiring active feedback stabilisation. The enhancement of the JET vertical stabilisation system will allow the operation with twice as large Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) than currently possible. This is important in expanding the JET operational space at [...]
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Professor K R Sreenivasan and Dr C Tuniz visit JET
Professor K R Sreenivasan and Dr C Tuniz were welcomed to JET by Jérôme Paméla (EFDA Associate Leader for JET), Duarte Borba (Head of Publications) and Richard Kamendje (Scientific Assistant to the EFDA Associate Leader for JET). Jérôme Paméla gave a presentation on JET and its role in the overall [...]
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International Workshop and Summer School in Plasma Physics in Bulgaria
This year the Sofia University Faculty of Physics, under the auspices of the Rector of the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria, organized the first workshop and summer school in plasma physics. It was held in Kiten on the Black Sea, June 8-12, 2005. The topics covered were: astrophysical plasma; [...]
