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 […]
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 […]
Read MoreIt is with great sadness that we deplore the passing of the lab’s lead mechanical technician, Michel Berte. Michel joined the lab during the early days of the installation and operation of the ICRH system on TEXTOR in the early 1980s. Michel’s technical knowledge and eagerness to learn, his natural energy to work and to […]
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