Newsletter | 2006 February
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ITER Director-General Nominee Ikeda visits Cadarache
On the 24th of November, ITER Director- General Nominee Kaname Ikeda visited for the first time the CEA Cadarache Centre as well as the future ITER construction site. His visit focussed on discussing preparations for the arrival of the ITER Project Team for which he will be responsible. He was [...]
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P.H. Rebut awarded Hannes Alfven prize
The Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society has awarded the 2006 Hannes Alfven Prize to Dr. Paul- Henri Rebut, for his lasting contributions to fusion research. The prize will be presented on the first day of the Annual Conference of the EPS Plasma Physics Division in Rome on [...]
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Chinese Prime Minister visits ITER site
On the 6th of December, the Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visisted the ITER construction site in Cadarache and Tore Supra. The Chinese leader stressed the interest that the whole world has in developing energy sources to replace dwindling fossil fuels, and he expressed the hope for an abundance of [...]
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Official inauguration Cadarache ITER joint work site
The ITER Joint Work Site in Cadarache was inaugurated on Thursday 15 December 2005 by a ribbon-cutting and olive-treeplanting ceremony, in the presence of regional politicians and representatives of the embassies and consulates of the ITER Parties. Pascale Amenc-Antoni, director of the CEA Cadarache centre, welcomed the participants to the [...]
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Commissioner Janez Potocnik visits Switzerland
On November 16, 2005, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) received the European Commissioner Janez Potocnik. He was welcomed for a tour of the Plasma Physics Research Center (CRPP) on the site of EPFL. Prof. Giorgio Margaritondo, Vice-President of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Prof. Minh Quang [...]
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India becomes full partner in ITER project
At the 12th ITER Negotiation Meeting, which was held on the 6th of December in Korea, India was welcomed as a full partner to the ITER project. At the beginning of the meeting, the current ITER partners (EU, Japan, China, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Korea and the USA) [...]
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New Joint European Master in Fusion Science
Seven institutions for higher education have launched a Joint European Master in Nuclear Fusion Science and Engineering Physics (FUSION-EP). The aim of the Masters programme is to provide high-level multinational research-oriented education in fusion-related engineering physics, in close relation to the research activities of the partners. The partners in the [...]
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Science on Stage
From the 21st until the 25th of November, 400 teachers gathered at CERN in Geneva for the first Science on Stage festival, an opportunity for European teachers to exchange successful and innovative teaching methods and materials. EFDA participated to the festival with two workshops on fusion, organised by Chris Warrick [...]
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Fusion at the Communicating European Research conference
On 14-15 November, the second Communicating European Research conference took place in the Brussels Expo. In the exhibition, the European Fusion Community presented itself with three stands presenting EFDA, the Fusion Road Show, and the ITER project, which were organised by European Commission’s DG-RTD, the UKAEA, and FOM. The ITER [...]
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ITER presented to European Industry
Over six hundred representatives from European industry and fusion research institutes gathered in Barcelona on 13/14 December, for a two-day workshop named “ITER – Opportunities for European Industry”. The goal of the workshop was to inform European companies about the ITER project, and to discuss opportunities for their involvement in [...]
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Enhancements for JET beyond 2006: the diagnostic projects
Authors: Jérôme Paméla, Michael Watkins, Alain Lioure, Shakeib Arshad and Andrea Murari In 2005 EFDA-JET embarked on a major new enhancements programme, aimed at supporting critical needs of ITER. The main elements of this programme are a new ITER-like first wall, a power upgrade, a new pellet injector and a [...]
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Preparing the heating of ITER by waves in the Ion Cyclotron Resonance frequency range.
Author: André Messiaen (ERM/KMS) For the RF heating of large tokamaks like JET or ITER, high power-density antenna arrays are required to provide the large amount of power needed to achieve the required central plasma temperature of 10 keV. In ITER an amount of 20 MW of RF power in [...]
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Bulk Tungsten R&D for the ITER-like Wall Project at JET
Author: Volker Philipps and Ralph Schorn Research Centre Jülich (Association EURATOMFZJ) – for a long time focussing on plasma-wall interaction and on testing plasma-facing structures – is contributing expertise to the ITER-like wall project at JET. R&D activities will address bulk tungsten components to be implemented into the divertor as [...]
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Maurizio Gasparotto New EFDA-Associate Leader for Technology
On the 1st of November last year, you took up your new duties as the EFDA Associate Leader for Technology. Could you tell us something about your background and about your present role? “I am a physicist, and have spent all my working life in R&D activities related to the [...]
