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A new Doctor in Science in LPP!

On Thursday 10 October 2024, Johan Buermans brilliantly defended his Phd thesis and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering Physics (UGent) and Doctor of Engineering Sciences (RMA). This work is a joint UGent-RMA doctorate performed under the supervision of Prof. Kristel Crombé (UGent, LPP) and Prof. Michael Van Schoor (RMA, LPP). The title […]

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Belgian Fusion Day 2024

The next Belgian Fusion Day will take place on Friday 18 October 2024 from 08:30 to 18:30 in the Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels. For more information and registration please consult the website https://bfd2024.ulb.be/.

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LPP contributed to a new publication on the physics of D-T plasmas in nature communications

LPP members Yevgen Kazakov and Jef Ongena collaborated to a new article on Deuterium-Tritium plasma physics published in September 2024 in the prestigious journal “Nature Communications”. The paper is called Stable Deuterium-Tritium plasmas with improved confinement in the presence of energetic-ion instabilities and is available in open-access from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-52182-z.

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Scientific Meeting of the Belgian Physical Society: LPP was there!

During the annual meeting of the Belgian Physical Society, hold at the VUB on 29/05/24, the LPP was very present with an oral presentation given by Dirk Van Eester during the session “Geo-, Astro- and Plasma Physics”, as well as no less than 5 posters defended by our researchers: Philippe Lamalle, Bernard Reman, Daniel López-Rodríguez, […]

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09/04/2024: RMA Webinar on wall conditioning and TOMAS device

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 the video on […]

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Website update: new page on the TOMAS project

TOMAS 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.

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The 15th Carolus Magnus Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics (CMSS-2024) will be held 24 June – 05 July 2024 and hosted by the Laboratory for Plasma Physics, LPP-ERM/KMS in Brussels, Belgium.

The 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 […]

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Breaking New Ground: crucial contribution by LPP-ERM/KMS to JET Tokamak’s Latest Fusion Energy Record

In 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 […]

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RMA visits IPP Greisfwald and the stellarator W7-X

Rear 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 […]

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