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ITER at the European Council of Ministers
At their meeting of 22nd September, the Competitiveness Council took note of a presentation by the Commission on the state of the process for identifying a European candidate site for ITER. The two sites proposed, Vandellos in Spain and Cadarache in France, have been analysed by a group chaired by […]
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Progress in the ITER Negotiations
The 10th Negotiators’ Standing sub-group (NSSG-10) meeting was hosted by the European Union. Delegations from Canada, the European Union, Japan, south Korea, the People’s Republic of China, the Russian Federation and the United States of America met at the Culham Research Center, UK, on 25 September. This followed an intense […]
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Aznar visits Vandellós
On September 9, 2003, the Spanish Prime Minister, José María Aznar, visited Vandellós (Spain), the site where his government proposes to host ITER. He was accompanied by Juan Costa, the new Spanish Minister for Science and Technology, and Jordi Pujol, President of the Government of Catalonia (Spain). Prime Minister Aznar […]
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New EFDA Leadership
“EFDA is now a key element of the European fusion programme. I would first like to pay a tribute first to my predecessor, Professor Karl Lackner. As the first EFDA Leader, Karl has helped build up the whole EFDA organisation and has led it through its first years, the most […]
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New ITER Interim Project Leader to continue fruitful cooperation
EFDA Newsletter (E.N.): Your first name – Yasuo – means “peaceful man”. This seems to be a very good precondition to lead a team of different international scientists and engineers! Yasuo Shimomura (Y.S.): I’m sure that the cooperation within our ITER project is peaceful and nice! After joining it I […]
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Main strategic R & D lines in the European Technology Programme in view of ITER construction
The European support to ITER, in terms of design and R&D, has been maintained without interruptions during all the design development period, starting in 1992 and continuing through all the phases of the project. Now that the construction of ITER is close to becoming a reality, and hopefully in a […]
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Christopher Llewellyn Smith appointed to Key Post
UKAEA announced on July, 30, 2003 the appointment of Professor Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith FRS as Director of Culham (UK), responsible for developing and implementing the strategy for the UK’s fusion research programme. Chris Llewellyn Smith’s scientific achievements and leadership have been recognized by awards and honours in seven countries […]
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JET: Families and Friends Open Day at Culham Science Centre
A great success – that was the verdict on the Families and Friends Open Day at Culham on 6 September. Some 1300 staff and guests (including Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith who took up his post as Culham Director the following Monday) took advantage of a wonderfully sunny day to view […]
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ASDEX Upgrade – en route to an all tungsten device
All major design studies of future fusion research and reactor devices employ tungsten (W) on plasma- facing components (PFCs) at least in a part of the divertor region, since in general, the erosion rate for low-Z materials like carbon or beryllium seems to be far too high in a steady […]
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Swedish Industry visits EFDA CSU Garching
A seven strong delegation consisting of leaders from Swedish industry and research organisations in the fusion area visited the EFDA CSU Garching (Germany) on 8 and 9 September 2003. The Swedish guests were interested in the latest developments of the ITER project as well as in seeing the plans for […]
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EIROforum Event: Physics & Life
The next EIROforum event is called “Physics and Life” and it will be held at ESTEC, Nordwijk (NL) from November 8 to 15. A report will be presented in the next EFDA Newsletter issue. For more information see: http://www.physicsonstage.net Fusion Expo Budapest (Hungary) Millenáris Park October 10 – 26, 2003
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In Memoriam: René Pellat
On August 4, 2003, René Pellat unexpectedly passed away. Born February 24, 1936, he graduated from Ecole Polytechnique as well as from the Corps des Ponts et Chaussées. René Pellat also earned a PhD in Physical Sciences in 1967. Seconded as an engineer to the Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion […]
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Dutch Fusion Pioneer Cees Braams Passed Away
Cees Braams, founding father of the Dutch research on nuclear fusion, suddenly passed away on July 29, 2003. He was born in 1925 and studied physics and mathematics at the Utrecht University (The Netherlands), where he received his doctorate in 1952. In 1965 he received his PhD with first class […]
