The next BELGIAN FUSION DAY is scheduled on 28 April 2026 in the Leuven inner city, in het Convent van Chievres, Groot Begijnhof 39, Building number 187-39. The website is now available online: https://www.bfd2026.be
Read MoreOn September 2nd the Commandant of the Royal Military Academy, Major General An-Roos De Potter, visited IPP Greifswald to see the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator and the ICRF antenna designed, installed and exploited by LPP-ERM/KMS. She was accompanied by the director of academic education (DEAO), Colonel Van Gyseghem. They were welcomed by several representatives of the Max […]
Read MoreThe 25th Topical Conference on Radio-Frequency Power in Plasmas was organised between May 19 and May 22 in the beautiful Schloss Hohenkammer in Germany. A strong delegation of LPP members was there: 2 invited talks were given by Pierre Dumortier and Philippe Lamalle, and 7 posters were presented by our team. Pictures: (c) Helmut Faugel
Read MoreOn April 23 and 24, 2025, LPP-ERM/KMS hosted the 50th General Assembly of EUROfusion at the Club Prince Albert in Brussels. The EUROfusion consortium funds research among its members (in 26 EU member states) on the basis of the “European roadmap to fusion energy” as a joint program under Euratom Horizon Europe. Almost all the […]
Read MoreThe 20th International Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices (PET-20) is organized by the KU Leuven, Ghent University and LPP ERM/LMS. It will be held from Tuesday September 23 to Friday September 26, 2025, at KU Leuven, Leuven. The workshop will reflect the present status of the theory of the edge region in […]
Read MoreDuring 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, […]
Read MoreOn 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 […]
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 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 […]
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