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  EFDA during FP7 Reinforced coordination of physics and technology in EU laboratories Part 3

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  Express to the future rolls through Germany

• European Fusion Computer comes to Jülich

  At the beginning of January the signatory process of a new implementing agreement under EFDA was launched. Under this agreement, the EFDA member Forschungszentrum Jülich – one of the world’s leading supercomputing centres – shall construct and operate a new supercomputer for fusion research. The computer, known as HPC-FF, or [...]

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  Having a whale of a time learning about fusion at JET

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  Fusion reflections in the Ljubljanica river

• Stochasticity in fusion plasmas is more important than ever: SFP 2009 Workshop in Jülich

  The series of international workshops on “Stochasticity in Fusion Plasmas” – in short “SFP” – was initiated by Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2003. From March 2 – 4, Chairman Bernhard Unterberg and scientific secretary Oliver Schmitz welcomed more than 50 scientists from all over the world to Jülich for the fourth [...]

• The European Test Blanket Module Consortium of Associates starts working for F4E

  On February 10th and 11th, the kickoff meeting for the “F4E-2008-GRT-09 (PNS-TBM)” grant was held at the F4E premises at Barcelona. Six EURATOM associates and affi liated organisations will cooperate on this grant and they submitted a joint proposal in September 2008. They formed the “European Test Blanket Module Consortium [...]

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  EFDA Leader Jérôme Paméla receives the Legion of Honour

• RFX-Mod Programme Workshop 2009

  After a successful 2008 experimental campaign, the European Reversed Field Pinch RFX-mod held its 2009 Programme Seminar on January 20- 22, 2009 in Padova. The seminar followed an open call for experimental proposals, which resulted in more than 130 proposals submitted to 4 task forces by various European Associations and [...]

• Advances in modelling the performance of fusion steels

  The Tritium Breeding Blankets (TBB) are major in-vessel components of the future fusion demonstration reactor DEMO. They have three main functions: breeding tritium, a necessary fuel for the fusion reaction, extracting the energy deposited by neutrons produced in the fusion process and contributing to the shielding of the superconducting magnets. [...]

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  JET prepares for final phase of “Enhancement Programme 2”

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  Divertor Test Platform in Finland: Shifting heavy weights with the greatest of precision

• COMPASS tokamak in Czech Republic now up and running

  Since the official start of operations on 19th February, the COMPASS tokamak at the Institute of Plasma Physics Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (IPP Prague) has had its share of visitors. A group of Members of the European Parliament visited on 26th February. The event, linked to the [...]

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  Magnum PSI reached first milestone

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  IPP Summer School on Plasma Physics and Fusion Research

• Research Connection Conference in Prague

  The European Commission Directorate General Research is organising the high level conference “Research Connection 2009” in Prague on 7th – 8th May. The event gathers 2500 leading scientists, policy makers, science communicators, and representatives of the industry and of European research organisations. Focusing specifically on the challenges and opportunities afforded [...]

• The 3rd Karlsruhe International School on Fusion Technologies

  The 3rd Karlsruhe International School on Fusion Technologies will be held at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, from 31st August to 11th September, 2009. The international course will give an overview on the key fusion technologies, their current status and on long term R&D, particularly in view of the next step beyond [...]