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 […]
Read MoreLPP 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.
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 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 […]
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