On Tuesday April 9, 2024, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., a new conference will take place, organized by the Royal Military Academy: Wall conditioning studies for nuclear fusion research using flexible experimental environment of the TOMAS device by Dr Kristel Crombé & Dr Andrei Goriaev. The abstract and the link to connect (via Teams) […]
Read MoreTOMAS is a middle-size toroidal machine in Forschungszentrum-Jülich (Germany) equipped with GD, ECRF, and ICRF heating systems, various diagnostics and material exposure equipment. It allows for wall conditioning, plasma production, and plasma-surface interaction studies. It is operated by a team from the LPP. More details here.
Read MoreThe scientific programme of CMSS-2024 will cover different theoretical, experimental and technological aspects of magnetic confinement fusion: • Tokamaks and stellarators• Theory and modeling fusion plasmas• Plasma heating, current drive and fast-ion physics• Plasma transport and confinement• Plasma-wall interaction• Fusion reactor materials• Plasma diagnostics and data analysis• Future fusion reactors: ITER and DEMO Most lectures […]
Read MoreIn a major scientific achievement, European researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility have set a new world energy record of 69 megajoules released in sustained and controlled fusion energy. This result was achieved as part of an experimental campaign to test operating scenarios for future fusion machines under conditions as close as possible […]
Read MoreRear Admiral Yves Dupont, commander of the RMA, and study director, Colonel Bart Scheers, paid an official visit to the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany, on 8 June 2023. During the visit, the Admiral and Colonel Scheers were given a detailed tour of the W7-X machine and the complex installations for the ICRH system. They were […]
Read MoreGreat success for German-Belgian fusion research: An innovative heating system with radio waves was used for the first time in the world’s largest stellarator Wendelstein 7-X at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald. Using a new type of antenna, more than 500,000 watts could be radiated into a helium plasma for […]
Read MoreOur colleague Vincent MAQUET has won the “Outstanding Poster Contribution by a Student” award at the occasion of the 24th Topical Conference on Radio-frequency Power in Plasmas organised in Annapolis, Maryland (USA). The poster is entitled “Minimization of the edge modes and near-fields of Traveling Wave Array” and is co-authored by Ricardo Ragona (DTU, Denmark), […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday 11/05 Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium visited UKAEA Science Center in Oxford. The tour was arranged as part of the Belgian Economic Mission, the first of its kind since Brexit and the pandemic, and raised the importance of fusion energy in delivering an environmentally responsible future energy supply. Twenty-six representatives from […]
Read MoreA paper from Dirk Van Eester, Ernesto Lerch and co-authors has been recently accepted for publication in the journal “Plasmas Physics and Controlled Fusion“. This paper is entitled “Maximising D−T fusion power by optimising the plasma composition and beam choice in JET” and focuses on the heating aspects and was intended to give a qualitative […]
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