Newsletter | 2008 December
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Reviewing status of fusion – FEC in Geneva
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SOFT conference in Rostock
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Report of the Fusion Facilities Review Panel presented
The Fusion Facilities Review Panel finalised and delivered its report to the European Commission. It was presented by the chairman of the panel, Pr. T. Hartkopf, at the CCE-FU on 30 October. This independent panel of experts appointed in December 2007 at the beginning of the Seventh European Research Framework [...]
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Fusion in the heart of Paris
How can plasma be created in a microwave oven? And how can you get people interested in fusion? Fusion researchers demonstrated both at the European City of Science event in Paris where the European Fusion Community participated with great success. This November European science moved to Paris for three days. [...]
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EFDA during FP7 – Reinforced coordination of physics and technology in EU laboratories Part 2
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50 years of tokamaks
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Wendelstein 7-X taking shape
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Prof. Friedrich Wagner retires
Professor Dr. Friedrich Wagner from the Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP), Greifswald Branch, retired at the end of November. Professor Wagner (born 1943) discovered in 1982 on the ASDEX tokamak (IPP-Garching) the High-Confinement Regime, later called H-Mode, a plasma state with confinement properties about twice as effective as [...]
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Youth festival in Hungary – communicating fusion to young people
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New Director and spokesperson at Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics
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Loss of Prof Skalny´
On 17 October 2008 the scientific community lost a great friend and colleague with the sudden and unexpected death of the Head of the Slovakian Association, Professor Jan Dusan Skalny´. The professional career of Jan Dusan Skalny´ was entwined with the Comenius University in Bratislava. Jan Dusan started his career [...]
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New HoA in Romania, new HRU in Belgium and France
Dr. Florin Spineanu was appointed Head of the Fusion Research Unit of the Association EURATOM-MEdC at the Steering Committee Meeting in 8 October 2008. Florin Spineanu has graduated from the Faculty of Physics (1977) and the Faculty of Mathematics (1986) of the University of Bucharest, Romania and obtained his PhD [...]
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Fusion in Dutch secondary schools
The Dutch association EURATOMFOM has produced a teaching module to bring fusion research into the classroom. The module was recently certified by the Dutch Ministry of Education and is now an official (elective) part of the new subject “Nature, Life and Technology” (NLT) in the Dutch curriculum. NLT aims to [...]
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JET on track for a promising future
