Newsletter | 2006 June
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ITER agreement initialled in Brussels
On May 24th the seven ITER parties came to an agreement on the world’s largest international scientific partnership: Ministers from the EU, China, India, Japan, South Korea, the Russian Federation and the USA met in Brussels to initial the agreement implementing the fusion energy research project On 24th May the [...]
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Dr. Jérôme Paméla appointed EFDA Leader
On the 3rd of April, Dr. Jérôme Paméla has been appointed EFDA Leader, succeeding Prof. Minh Quang Tran, who has returned to work full time as Director of the Association Euratom-Confédération Suisse at CRPP in Lausanne. Dr. Paméla graduated from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, in 1977. After a PhD in High [...]
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Dr Francesco Romanelli appointed EFDA Associate Leader for JET
Dr. Francesco Romanelli, Head of the Magnetic Confinement Fusion Physics Section at ENEA in Frascati, Italy, has been appointed EFDA Associate Leader for JET. The appointment was made at the EFDA Steering Committee meeting held on the 4th of May 2006. Dr. Romanelli graduated in physics in 1980 and started [...]
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ITER Preparatory Committee meets in Goa, India
The 8th meeting of the ITER Preparatory Committee took place 26/27th April in Goa, with India hosting and chairing for the first time. The meeting addressed how to prepare for the practical implementation of the ITER Joint Implementation Agreement, to be initialled by the Parties’ Government representatives on May 24th [...]
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EFDA Industrial Database launched
About half of the ITER device will be constructed using the skills and expertise of the European industry. To survey the interest and availability of companies in the EU in various areas of industrial competence relevant for the construction of ITER, EFDA has launched the “Industrial Database for ITER”. The [...]
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ITER in focus of Public Debate in France
A Public Debate “ITER en Provence” organised by the “Commission Nationale de Débat Public” (CNDP) in France, opened on 16 January 2006. The ITER Preparatory Committee had delegated the CEA, in close cooperation with the ITER International Team, to act on behalf of the ITER Parties in representing the project. [...]
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Global Energy Prize for ITER studies
The International prize “Global Energy” 2006 will be awarded to three scientists from Russia, France and Japan for their seminal work on the ITER project. The laureates Dr. Robert Aymar (France), the Russian academic Evgenii Velikhov and Dr. Masaji Yoshikawa (Japan), are honoured “for the development of the scientific and [...]
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Dr. Norbert Holtkamp appointed ITER Project Construction Leader
At a meeting in Tokyo on 1st April, the chief ITER negotiators from the seven international parties (European Union, India, Japan, Korea, China, the Russian Federation and the USA), accepted the European Union’s proposal to designate Dr. Norbert R. Holtkamp as nominee Principal Deputy Director-General (PDDG) and Project Construction Leader [...]
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ITER Director-General Kaname Ikeda visits the JET Facilities
On Friday the 21st of April, the ITER Director- General Kaname IKEDA with his assistant Dr. Shunsuke Ide visited JET. The staff working on fusion at the Culham facilities highly appreciated DG Ikeda’s informal talk about his extensive professional experience and his new mission at ITER. The talk was followed [...]
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JET starts experimental campaign C15 with a modified divertor
On April 24th the experimental campaign C15 started on JET, after one of the busiest shutdown periods, during which several new systems were installed and others modified. In particular, the divertor has been upgraded to run plasmas with ITER-like configurations at high current and magnetic field and with up to [...]
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Fusion Expo Vilnius
Author: Barry Green The Fusion Expo, the travelling exhibition on fusion energy and fusion research, has been on the road for many years now, and is currently being managed by Consorzio RFX in Padova, Italy. Over the years, it has proven to be a very successful tool in communicating fusion [...]
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Fusion goes EAST – Chinese experimental Tokamak on discharge test in July
China´s new generation fusion device, the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), is due to begin operating this summer. After successfully passing its commissioning tests this spring, when EAST was subject to complex pumping, cooling and energizing experiments, the first plasma discharge tests are due to take place in July/August this [...]
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Plasma Summer School in Poland
The Association EURATOM/Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion (IPPLM, Warsaw, Poland), International Centre for Dense Magnetised Plasmas (ICDMP) together with its Czech Branch (in Prague) are organising the Sixth International Workshop and Summer School “Towards Fusion Energy – Plasma Physics, Diagnostics and Spin-offs”. The Workshop will be held in [...]
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Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES) in Istanbul
The 13th International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems (ICENES2007) will take place from 3rd until 8th June 2007 in Istanbul, Turkey. The conference will consist of a scientific program, featuring oral and poster presentations and a commercial exhibition. The forum will also be open to debate leading to practical [...]
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Science meets Industry – Turning up the Heat
A high profile Techno logy & Innovation Exhibition, the “ITER Business Opportunities for UK Industry”, will take place on the 28th and 29th June 2006 at the UKAEA Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The event presents a chance for industry to meet UKAEA scientists and engineers as well as representatives [...]
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“Stakes are high”
The stakes are high for Kaname Ikeda, the new director of the world´s biggest ever fusion experiment. Kaname Ikeda is not a fusion scientist, but has dealt extensively with fusion researchers while moving up the ranks of Japan´s science administration. His manifold experience in both national and international project management [...]
