Newsletter | 2009 December

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  EFDA DEMO Meeting: Where does fusion research stand?

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  Jérôme Paméla takes up new assignment

• ASDEX-Upgrade Annual Meeting

  IPP scientists and their collaborators met at the Ringberg Castle, a conference site of the Max-Planck-Society, between 26th – 30th October 2009. This traditional annual gathering is organised primarily to discuss the scientific and technical aspects of the ASDEX Upgrade research programme, but it is also characterised by very rich [...]

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  A new ‘identity’ for UKAEA Culham

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  New media prize for the film “Fusion 2100”

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  Fusion Expo tours Poland

• Günther Hasinger new Chairman of EFDA-SC

  On 6th October, 2009, Günther Hasinger was appointed Chairman of the EFDA Steering Committee (EFDA-SC). Professor Dr. Hasinger was appointed scientific director of Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics at Garching and Greifswald in 2008. Prior to this, as of 2001, he held the role of director of the X-ray [...]

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  Immerse yourself inside the plasma

• Wendelstein 7-X: Coil tests completed

  Ten years after the contracts for seventy superconducting coils for the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X were signed, the last coil completed the functionality test at CEA Saclay. Professor Thomas Klinger, the scientific director of the project Wendelstein 7-X at IPP Greifswald, recalls the countless technical problems that needed to be overcome [...]

• Karlsruhe International School on Fusion Technologies

  Worldwide plans to develop nuclear fusion into a future energy source will depend heavily on a new generation of highly trained and motivated engineers and physicists. The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (formerly the FZK) therefore organises an annual summer school in co-operation with European research organisations and industrial companies. The [...]

• Tore Supra starts up with new LHCD antenna

  On October 28, the new ITER prototype Lower Hybrid Current Drive (LHCD) antenna (Passive Active Multi- junction (PAM) antenna, see FN October 2009) started its commissioning phase on the Tore Supra tokamak. The entire system operated successfully as soon as the second day, coupling 450 kW into the plasma for [...]

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  Fusion on a trapeze

• Tore Supra research programme 2010 – 2011

  On November 18th CEA presented the Tore Supra experimental programme for 2010 – 2011 at a meeting held in Cadarache. The programme is based on the significant upgrade of the Lower Hybrid (LH) radiofrequency system for heating and current drive that has been implemented within the framework of the CIMES [...]

• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology founded

  On 1st October, the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and Universität Karlsruhe merged to form the new Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). KIT combines the missions of a university with teaching and research tasks and that of a large-scale research institution within the Helmholtz Association, namely conducting program-oriented research. With approximately 8000 employees [...]

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  EFDA during FP7 – Reinforced coordination of physics and technology in EU laboratories Part 5

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  JET develops improved ICRH for ITER

• What happens to JET during the 2009/10 shutdown?

  On Friday, October 23rd, JET’s C27 Experimental Campaign came to a successful conclusion. As soon as the experimental team had finished, work began on the shutdown required to install the major components of the second JET Enhancement Programme in Support of ITER (EP2). For EP2, JET’s plasma facing components, which [...]

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  MEdC chosen to provide tungsten coatings for JET