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<div class="ExternalClass29A8367056464071A907EA822091FE9F"><p>?The ºÚÁÏÉçapp International School (IIS) is an annual event jointly organized by the French Aix-Marseille University and the ºÚÁÏÉçapp. The 2015 edition will take place from <b>14 to 18 December</b> at the University of Science and Technology (USTC)&nbsp;in Hefei, China, hosted by USTC and the Academy of Sciences Institute of Plasma Physics, ASIPP.</p> <p>The primary objective of the IIS is to provide a regular forum for conducting a post-graduate training school in the area of fusion science for young researchers with a view to attracting them to participate in the scientific exploitation of ºÚÁÏÉçapp. The IIS will present the current and future scientific and technical challenges facing fusion science. The academic program of the IIS will be focused on a chosen scientific theme relevant to ºÚÁÏÉçapp and which may change from year to year.</p> <div>The theme chosen for 2015 is: <b>Transport and pedestal physics in tokamaks</b></div> <div><b>&nbsp;</b></div> <div>Previous editions have taken place in Aix-en-Provence, France; Gandhinagar, India; and Austin, TX, USA. For more on the ºÚÁÏÉçapp International School, or to enroll, please visit the IIS 2015 <a href=" color="#0000ff">website</font></a>.</div> <p>&nbsp;</p></div>

<div class="ExternalClass61B91286A3C745AAA9F63E188E722649"><p>?Registration is open through 1 October 2015 for the fifth&nbsp;FuseNet PhD event, which will take in Prague, Czech Republic&nbsp;from 15 to 18 November. </p> <p>The aim of the event is to enable students to disseminate their research, develop a network of contacts and learn from each other's experiences.</p> <p>Organized by the Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering of the Czech Technical University&nbsp;under the umbrella of the FuseNet Association and with financial support by <a href=";, the PhD Event 2015 brings together PhD students working in the field of fusion science and engineering.</p> <p>The PhD Event&nbsp;is open to all PhD students whose topic is associated with nuclear fusion research and registered at a European university, or at a FuseNet member university. Financial support for attending students is available, granted by EUROfusion through FuseNet, at the FuseNet website. More details will be posted on the registration form.</p> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em><strong>Registration is&nbsp;open <a href="; through 1 October 2015.</strong></em></div></div>

<div class="ExternalClass76537803B5A846A89841F074294F1D87"><p>?The European Domestic Agency for ºÚÁÏÉçapp is responsible for delivering four remote handling systems to ºÚÁÏÉçapp: the divertor remote handling system, the neutral beam remote handling system, the in-vessel viewing and metrology system, and the cask transfer system for activated components¡ªin all, about EUR 250 million of investment.</p> <p>In July, the European agency announced that it had signed the fourth and final Procurement Arrangement for remote handling systems with the ºÚÁÏÉçapp¡ªthe Cask and Plug Remote Handling System. Responsible for confining and transporting the machine's activated in-vessel components, this complex system will interface with more than 50 different ºÚÁÏÉçapp systems and comply with the strictest nuclear safety requirements.</p> <p>The casks, which are automated, mobile containers weighing approximately 50 tons, will move equipment such as divertor cassettes and heating plugs between the Tokamak Building and the Hot Cell Building in order for them to be repaired, tested or disposed of. These transfer devices will need to be able to lift components weighing up to 45 tons and operate with high accuracy within a tightly confined space within the buildings.</p> <p>The procurement contract for a fleet of 14 units is expected to be awarded in 2016.</p> <p><em><strong>Read the full article on the European Domestic Agency </strong></em><a href=" color="#0000ff"><em><strong>website</strong></em></font></a><em><strong>.</strong></em></p></div>

<div class="ExternalClass799862C4731149FF94427CBAA6B464A6"><p>?"Fusing the Project World" is the title of a Project Management Conference organized by "eVa in the UK" in collaboration with the ºÚÁÏÉçapp. The event will take place at the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Headquarters on 4 September 2015.</p> <div>This one-day conference offers first-hand opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with world leading project managers. The list of speakers lined up includes CERN's leading engineer Roberto Saban, Didi Hopkins from the National Theatre of Great Britain and Harvey Maylor from the Said Business School. The fusion part of the conference will be covered by ºÚÁÏÉçapp Director-General Bernard Bigot and Steven Cowley, the CEO of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. For more information please click <a href=";. </div></div>

<div class="ExternalClass214CCEF84A9947AD8E8762F737A0F38F"><p>?The 10th Asia Plasma &amp; Fusion Association Conference (APFA) will be held in Gandhinagar, India from 14 to 18 December 2015.</p> <p>The purpose of the APFA is to organize Asian scientists and engineers working in plasma and fusion science and engineering fields, to exchange information on mutual interests, to strengthen friendships, to promote education of young scientists and engineers, and to contribute to the development of plasma science and fusion engineering.</p> <p>Abstract submission closes on 1 August. For more information, visit the APFA <a href=";

<div class="ExternalClass8941010359414191ACB42657DA0C7188"><p>?Chuck Kessel, a principal engineer at the US Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has won the 2015 Fusion Technology Award. The honour, from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' (IEEE) Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, recognizes outstanding contributions to fusion engineering and technology.</p> <p>"Chuck has long been a widely recognized pioneer in developing advanced tokamak operating scenarios that have served as the basis for several machine design concepts," said Michael Williams, associate director for engineering and infrastructure at PPPL and a past recipient of the honour. "Receiving the 2015 Fusion Technology Award duly recognizes Chuck's outstanding contributions to the development of fusion technology."</p> <p>Presentation of the award came during the 2015 Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE) that was held in June in Austin, Texas. The annual event focuses on the latest developments in the quest for fusion energy. While at the conference Kessel gave a plenary talk about the Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF), a proposed next step in the US fusion program. Kessel heads a nationwide study that will detail options for the FNSF and consider its role in relation to ºÚÁÏÉçapp.</p> <p><em>(Photo by Elle Starkman/ PPPL Office of Communications)</em></p> <p><strong><em>Read the whole article on the PPPL <a href=";

<div class="ExternalClassE0299B8C61E748E4A94FB664685E67A0"><p>?<font>The first edition of the new Summer School "<a href="; for students and postdocs was successfully realized last week (16-20 June 2015) in Poland.</font></p> <p>&nbsp;<font>The aim of this initiative (cooperation between CEA Cadarache, Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN and Rzeszow Technical University in Poland) is to establish a thematic school, i.e. Summer School of Plasma Diagnostics, with a strictly defined topic: the first edition was devoted to 'Soft X-ray diagnostics for Fusion Plasma'.</font></p> <p>&nbsp;<font>The choice of the School's venue, in the south-eastern part of Poland, was not accidental. In this region the 'green field' for DONES is proposed under the auspices of local government and <a href=" IFMIF/ELAMAT</a>. This region has a heavy concentration of aerospace industry, scientific research centers, as well as educational and training facilities. </font></p> <p>&nbsp;<font>The next edition of the School in 2017 will be devoted to neutron and gamma for fusion plasma diagnostics. Book your time in the summer of 2017 for PhDiaFusion !</font></p> <div><font><em></em></font>&nbsp;<font><em>Photo: Chairman of the School Didier Mazon (CEA) has invited the eminent scientists who led lectures and tutorials for young students. Among them they were: Luigi Alloca, Robin Barnsley, Dimitri Batani, Andreas Dinklage, Tony Donne, Christian Ingesson, Hans-Joachim Kunze, Martin O'Mullane, Jef Ongena, Marek Rubel, Marek Sadowski, Jan Stockel and Tom Todd. </em></font></div></div>

<div class="ExternalClassEA68141A71D641CA97B00C8B3E1E8918"><p>?For one week at the end of June, a representative of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp quality assurance team inspected a number of Russian industries for compliance with the quality system requirements of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp. </p> <p>These companies are producing hardware in the framework of Russia's commitments to ºÚÁÏÉçapp's in-kind procurement program, which distributes the manufacturing of ºÚÁÏÉçapp components and systems among the seven ºÚÁÏÉçapp Members.</p> <p>The industries inspected¡ªthe Dollezhal Institute (Moscow), the Efremov Institute (St. Petersburg), JSC Energopul (Moscow), Fusion Centre (Moscow), and CJSC RTSoft (Moscow)¡ªare responsible for the development and procurement of switching networks and fast distribution units, DC busbars and instrumentation; the blanket first wall; the electron cyclotron radio frequency gyrotrons; blanket module connections; and diagnostic systems and port plug integration. The Russian Domestic Agency was also inspected for its compliance to quality systems requirements.</p> <p>The final report highlighted compliance with ºÚÁÏÉçapp requirements and identified a number of "good practices" at the industries inspected.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>Alexander Petrov, ºÚÁÏÉçapp Russia</em>&nbsp;</p> <div>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div></div>

<div class="ExternalClass42E5B05DC73C4DF8B2418CA6EE74FA29"><p>?Do you want to gain professional experience and contribute to the work of the European agency for ºÚÁÏÉçapp, Fusion for Energy? Are you curious about the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project&nbsp;and what it's like to work in an international environment? A Fusion for Energy (F4E) traineeship could be the perfect opportunity for you! </p> <p>F4E?s traineeships program aims to promote awareness, knowledge and understanding of F4E's role in the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project and within the European context, as well as to provide training to university graduates in the fusion field. The traineeship is paid and lasts from four to nine months with F4E in any of the three sites: Barcelona (Spain), ºÚÁÏÉçapp site (France), or Garching (Germany), starting on either 1 March or 1 October.</p> <p>Click <a href=" </a>for a list of opportunities.</p></div>

<div class="ExternalClass7B8AB6054E444946B14D3EDAADBA704B"><p>?Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have developed a detailed model of the source of a puzzling limitation on fusion reactions. The findings, published in June in&nbsp;<em>Physics of Plasmas</em>, complete and confirm previous PPPL research and could lead to steps to overcome the barrier if the model proves consistent with experimental data. "We used to have correlation," said physicist David Gates, first author of the paper. "Now we believe we have causation." This work was supported by the DOE Office of Science.</p> <p>At issue is a problem known as the "density limit" that keeps donut-shaped fusion facilities called tokamaks from operating at peak efficiency. This limit occurs when the superhot, charged plasma gas that fuels fusion reactions reaches a certain density and spirals apart in a flash of light, shutting down the reaction. Overcoming the limit could facilitate the development of fusion as a safe, clean and abundant source of energy for generating electricity.</p> <p>Read the full article on the <a href="; website.</p> <p><em>Image: </em><em>Magnetic island geometry showing the asymmetry effect that is crucial in determining the mechanism for the density limit. Reprinted with permission from Phys. Plasmas 22, 022514 (2015). Copyright 2015 AIP Publishing LLC.</em></p> <div>&nbsp;</div></div>

<div class="ExternalClass513E860667C645D3BD1CFD216B95320B"><p>?<font>In June, a group of Communications Officers from fusion laboratories across Europe met in Finland for two days of exchange.</font></p> <div><div><font>Representing the 29 research organizations and universities from 26 European countries plus Switzerland, the communicators from FuseCOM met for the first time on behalf of the newly built </font><a href=" color="#0000ff">EUROfusion</font></a><font> consortium to discuss European fusion communication.</font></div> <div><font>&nbsp;</font></div> <div><font>EUROfusion, the European Consortium for the Development of Fusion Energy, manages and funds European fusion research activities on behalf of Euratom, in accordance with the&nbsp;</font><a href=" color="#0000ff">Roadmap to the realisation of fusion energy</font></i></a><font>, which outlines the most efficient way to realize fusion electricity by 2050. It is the result of an analysis of the European Fusion Programme undertaken in 2012 by the&nbsp;Research laboratories&nbsp;within EUROfusion's predecessor agreement, the European Fusion Development Agreement, EFDA.</font></div> <div><font>&nbsp;</font></div> <div><font>The FuseCOM members met in Finland, where they were hosted by Finland's Research Unit VTT. Through presentations and working groups, participants shared news from the research units across Europe, practical examples of communication work, and strategies for the future. Meeting organizer and head of EUROfusion's Communications Office, Petra Nieckchen, commented: "We have established a trusting network that is the very basis needed to reach our long-term goal: creating, with the network, a coherent European voice for fusion." </font></div> <div><font>&nbsp;</font></div> <div><font>Learn more about FuseCOM </font><a href=" color="#0000ff">here</font></a><font>. </font></div></div></div>

<div class="ExternalClass941F8126FBA145C3866E66F4DE22A101"><p>The 8th edition of the <i>Festival de Th</i><i>¨¦</i><i>orie</i> opens on Monday 6 July in Aix-en-Provence, France.</p> <p>Held every two years, the <em>Festival</em> organizes theory working groups on well-focused subjects in magnetized plasma physics and aims to foster interdisciplinary links between magnetic fusion, astrophysics, plasma physics and related fields.</p> <p>The international meetings usually bring together 25 to 35 experts and about 80 younger researchers, including PhD students and post-docs. The Director Committee for this year's edition is chaired by ºÚÁÏÉçapp Director-General Bernard Bigot. The scientific committee is chaired by Prof. P.H. Diamond (UCSD and NFRI) and co-chaired by Dr. X. Garbet (CEA).</p> <p>The 2015 <i>Festival de Th¨¦orie</i> will run from 6 to 24 July 2015. The main topic is "Pathways to Relaxation." This includes ¡ª but is not limited to ¡ª reconnection events such as solar flares and general impulsive relaxation in astrophysics, sawteeth, Edge Localized Modes and edge relaxation phenomena in confined plasmas, Taylor relaxation, Potential Vorticity mixing dynamics and homogenization in fluids, and general aspects of constrained relaxation.</p> <p><em><strong>More information at the conference </strong></em><a href=";

<div class="ExternalClass180DE96EFC3D41029CE812364C682BD1"><div class="ExternalClassA985D42A3B1E4EE28A5AC03148FCDF9C"><p>?Rotation is key to the performance of salad spinners, toy tops, and centrifuges, but recent research suggests a way to harness rotation for the future of mankind's energy supply. In papers published in&nbsp;<em>Physics of Plasmas</em>&nbsp;in May and&nbsp;<em>Physical Review Letters</em>&nbsp;this month, Timothy Stoltzfus-Dueck, a physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), demonstrated a novel method that scientists can use to manipulate the intrinsic ¡ª or self-generated ¡ª rotation of hot, charged plasma gas within fusion facilities called tokamaks.&nbsp;</p> <p>Such a method could prove important for future facilities like ºÚÁÏÉçapp, the huge international tokamak under construction in France that will demonstrate the feasibility of fusion as a source of energy for generating electricity. ºÚÁÏÉçapp's massive size will make it difficult for the facility to provide sufficient rotation through external means.</p> <p>Rotation is essential to the performance of all tokamaks. Rotation can stabilize instabilities in plasma, and sheared rotation ¡ª the difference in velocities between two bands of rotating plasma ¡ª can suppress plasma turbulence, making it possible to maintain the gas's high temperature with less power and reduced operating costs.</p> <p>Today's tokamaks produce rotation mainly by heating the plasma with neutral beams, which cause it to spin. In intrinsic rotation, however, rotating particles that leak from the edge of the plasma accelerate the plasma in the opposite direction, just as the expulsion of propellant drives a rocket forward.</p> <p>On the <strong>Tokamak ¨¤ Configuration Variable (<a href=" color="#f7b615">TCV</font></a>)</strong> in Lausanne, Switzerland, Stoltzfus-Dueck and the TCV&nbsp;team influenced intrinsic rotation by moving the so-called X-point ¡ª the dividing point between magnetically confined plasma and plasma that has leaked from confinement.&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Read the full article on the&nbsp;<a href="; website.</em></strong></p> <p><em>(<em>Images obtained on the TCV tokamak.</em>)</em></p></div></div>

<div class="ExternalClassB434A72A0685443185EBA0E3E907FE86"><p>?Since 2011, JET has been using beryllium and tungsten as plasma-facing materials in the vessel. As the name suggests JET's ºÚÁÏÉçapp-like wall is constructed using the same materials that will be used in ºÚÁÏÉçapp, the next generation fusion experiment which is currently being built in France.</p> <p>So far, experiments with the new wall have been fuelled by hydrogen and deuterium. Since the most economic fuel for future fusion power plants is a mix of deuterium and tritium, this mixture needs to be put to the test.</p> <p>As part of the preparations for this extraordinary event, the first delivery of tritium has arrived at the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE), the home of JET. Tim Jones, project sponsor from CCFE explains: 'For licensing reasons, only a limited amount of tritium may be transferred over the JET tritium storage facility in an individual batch quantity. Additional batches will later be delivered in order to collect together a total amount of 55 grams that will be needed for the scheduled campaign."</p> <p>Dedicated sets of experiments using deuterium and tritium are necessary to promote understanding of the influence of the fuel isotope on plasma performance and on interactions between the plasma and the new wall.</p> <p>Similar experiments to those planned with tritium are being prepared with hydrogen and deuterium, so far the results show that ºÚÁÏÉçapp operating regimes are compatible with the new wall materials.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong><em>Read the full article on the&nbsp;<a href="; website.</em></strong></p></div>

<div class="ExternalClassEA3CA15836384410B50218C4814048B8"><p>?A round-up of the latest news articles, videos and images from the European Domestic Agency for ºÚÁÏÉçapp can be found in the June edition of the <em>F4E News</em>, accessible by clicking on this <a href=";

<div class="ExternalClass15E026E2FD1F462AA5D396E4E8C1DDB7"><p>?<font>The European consortium responsible for manufacturing seven of the nine ºÚÁÏÉçapp vacuum vessel sectors has begun hot forming activities on sector #5.</font></p> <div><font>In this video filmed by Patrick Vertongen (ºÚÁÏÉçapp&nbsp;Quality Assurance &amp; Assessment Division)&nbsp;at&nbsp;Walter Tosto SpA in Chieti, Italy (part of the </font><a href="/newsline/150/458"><font color="#0000ff">AMW consortium</font></a><font>, with Ansaldo Nucleare S.p.A and Mangiarotti S.p.A) a stainless steel plate is pressed into the required shape through an open die hot forming process.</font></div> <div><font>&nbsp;</font></div> <div><font>First, the 60 millimetre-thick plates are heated to 930 ¡ãC in a gas-fired furnace and maintained at this temperature for 30 minutes. Then, the plate is removed from the furnace and positioned in a die to be pressed. After two hours in the die, the plate is removed and cooled for the next manufacturing operation.</font></div> <div><font>&nbsp;</font></div> <div><font>Each of the nine vacuum vessel sectors will be 13 metres high, 6.5 metres wide, 6.3 metres deep and will weigh approximately 500 tons; all of the sectors are double-walled, containing thermal shielding in the interstice to protect the super conducting coils. The other two sections of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp vacuum vessel are being supplied by </font><a href="/newsline/212/1088"><font color="#0000ff">Korea</font></a><font>.</font></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><em><strong>Click <a href="; to watch the video</strong></em></div> <div><em>(With the authorization of Walter Tosto SpA.)</em></div></div>

<div class="ExternalClass1EE6030ECECC44C3A3782D014FDA3470"><p>?<font>What would it mean to have an essentially limitless amount of energy? If we can harness fusion power, we can have energy that is clean, safe, sustainable, and secure. It will be the power of a sun on earth. The dream of fusion energy has been a scientific goal for decades, but it has remained elusive.</font></p> <div><font>On Tuesday, June 16, 2015, Dennis Whyte, the Director of the </font><a href=" color="#0000ff">MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center</font></a><font> showed that a series of scientific and engineering breakthroughs could enable fusion to become a feasible a power source faster and cheaper than anyone had thought possible. These technological breakthroughs</font>¡ª<font>High Temperature Superconducting magnets, 3D printing techniques, and a new liquid salt material that could be used as a liquid blanket</font>¡ª<font>were not originally developed for fusion, but they could revolutionize the development of fusion energy.</font></div> <div><font>&nbsp;</font></div> <div><font>As a part of New York Energy Week, Whyte presented the recent and ongoing technological breakthroughs to a group of professionals from energy, finance, and media at FTI Strategic Communications' Wall Street office. This event was sponsored by the </font><a href=" color="#0000ff">American Security Project</font></a><font> as part of their program on Next Generation Energy. </font></div> <div><font>&nbsp;</font></div> <div><font>See the original article and slide show presentation </font><a href=" color="#0000ff">here</font></a><font>.</font></div></div>

<div class="ExternalClassB0EC6B7A60394574933A200FFD9B1891"><p><font>If only it were possible to read minds. It would have been interesting to know what that particular visitor was thinking as he leaned over the fence to stare down into the busy Tokamak Complex construction area, with its massive rebar and concrete structures. Perhaps how ºÚÁÏÉçapp is taking shape, after all these years...</font>&nbsp;</p> <p><font>Academician Evgeny&nbsp;Velikhov</font><font>, current President of the Kurchatov Institute in Moscow, is one of the masterminds behind the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Project. He helped to initiate the project at the highest political level by persuading Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev that the next generation of fusion device needed to be a joint international effort. He was ºÚÁÏÉçapp Council Chair during the technical design phase for ºÚÁÏÉçapp and again at the start of ºÚÁÏÉçapp construction from 2010-2012.</font></p> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><font>Academician Velikhov was on-site to attend the sixteenth ºÚÁÏÉçapp Council meeting held at Headquarters from 17 to 18 June, but for now it was time to see how construction was progressing. Escorted by the acting head of the ºÚÁÏÉçapp Tokamak Engineering Department, Alexander Alekseev, as well Section Leader Igor Sekachev, Velikhov¡ªnow in his </font><a href=" color="#0000ff">eighties</font></a><font>¡ªwas able to take full measure of the road travelled as he looked over the 42 hectare construction site spread out before him.</font></div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div><font>Back at Headquarters, he quickly removed the obligatory safety shoes and safety equipment to meet some of the Russian staff members at ºÚÁÏÉçapp before returning later that day to Moscow.</font></div></div>

<p>??In this five-minute video produced by the European Domestic Agency for ºÚÁÏÉçapp, the type of specialized robotics, networks and virtual reality techniques used in deep sea or space operations find their application for ºÚÁÏÉçapp, where remote handling will be used to perform maintenance, inspection and repair tasks.</p> <p>The European agency is responsible for delivering four remote handling systems to ºÚÁÏÉçapp: the divertor remote handling system, the neutral beam remote handling system, the cask transfer system for activated components, and the in-vessel viewing and metrology system¡ªin all, about EUR 250 million of investment.</p> <p>Recently, conclusive tests were carried out at the VTT Technical Research Centre in Tampere, Finland for the remote handling of ºÚÁÏÉçapp divertor cassettes¡ª10-ton components that must be installed and/or exchanged through high-tech robotics.&nbsp;</p> <p>Watch the video&nbsp;<a href=";

<div class="ExternalClass7F48BF454AC845A4B6ED73DE93CB71C4"><p>?The signature nuclear fusion experiment at the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab is expected to relaunch this summer after being shuttered for upgrades for about three years.</p> <p>When it reopens, the reactor there will be the most powerful of its kind in the world, lab directors say.</p> <p>"We expect to start up probably toward the end of June. We'll do the initial tests that will get us toward research operations, and (research) will start later in the summer, let's say August time frame, maybe mid-September," said Adam Cohen, chief operating officer for the lab.</p> <p>The National Spherical Torus Experiment, also known as NSTX, is a plasma in the shape of a cored apple heated to between 50 million and 100 million degrees.</p> <p>The experiment's $94 million upgrade bought a stronger magnet for the plasma's nuclear reactor and a second neutral beam accelerator to heat plasma even further.</p> <p><em><strong>Read the whole article on the&nbsp;<a href="; website.</strong></em></p></div>