this issue
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Association EURATOM-CIEMAT (Spain): Sanchez succeeds Alejaldre
Prof. Carlos Alejaldre, Head of the Association EURATOM-CIEMAT has been appointed by the Spanish Government as “Director General de Política Tecnológica”. He will now have responsibility for the strategy of the Spanish Government towards the large scientific and technological projects and facilities: fusion (TJ-II, JET, ITER), high energy physics (CERN), […]
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EESC backs fusion option
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) has voiced strong support for the development of fusion energy approving an opinion submitted to the EESC plenary session on 30th June. For more information please see our website: https://www.euro-fusion.org/wpcms >> “Debates and Policy Papers” and http://www.esc.eu.int/documents/summaries_plenaries/2004/synt_410_07_04_en.pdf
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Completion of irradiated divertor mock-ups and material sample testing
The high heat flux testing of neutron-irradiated divertor mock-ups and the characterisation of neutron-irradiated material samples was recently completed at Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), Germany. This worldwide unique R&D effort has provided essential information on the performance of the ITER divertor, which is now expected to meet the requirements of 1000 […]
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ÖAW: 15th Association Day on Plasma Physics
On 16th June 2004 the Association EURATOM-ÖAW (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften – Austrian Academy of Sciences) organised its annual Association Day on Plasma Physics at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). At this meeting the Austrian research groups active in this field presented their contributions to the physics programme and recent […]
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10th Tekes Association Annual Seminar
The 10th Annual Seminar of the Association EURATOM-Tekes was held at the Tampere University of Technology on 1-2 June 2004. Over 50 fusion physicists and engineers representing Tekes, VTT, universities and industry participated in the seminar. The talks and posters presented a summary of the research activities of the Finnish […]
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Association EURATOM-IPP.CR
The fusion programme in the Czech Republic is coordinated by the Association EURATOM-IPP.CR, which was established in 1999. The Institute of Plasma Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AS CR) performs the research together with six other national partners: • J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry AS CR, […]
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Test Blanket Working Group (TBWG)
The ITER Test Blanket Working Group (TBWG) was re-established in September 2003 and convened for the third time at EFDA Garching (Germany) from 7 to 9 July 2004. Four members of the ITER International Team and up to three members from each of the ITER Participants (China, EU, Japan, Russian […]
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Real-time control at JET
It is increasingly clear that real-time control is expected to play a crucial role in experiments based on magnetically confined plasma. From the early years of fusion research where the experimental scenario was ‘hard-wired’ and used elementary electronic control over a few key parameters, research has moved towards a completely […]
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31st European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion
London has always been an important centre of modern life, a point of intersection between science, arts and technology, trade and commerce. This year, from 28th June to 2nd July, Imperial College, which is located in London’s South Kensington district, hosted the 31st European Physical Society (EPS) conference on plasma […]
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Increased EU participation in the new ASDEX Upgrade Programme structure
ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) has always had a large deal of collaborations with both European and international partners. Scientists, in particular from other European Associations, analysed data, provided theory and published results. Two years ago the EURATOM-IPP Association in Garching (Germany) changed the formal structure of the ASDEX Upgrade project to […]
