EPS-06 summary / MGB 060626

• ~600 registered participants

• 64 invited talks; 79 contributed talks; 750 contributed posters– Menard talk in first contributed oral session on Tuesday– NSTX posters (and all others from USA) on Friday

• Session was well attended nevertheless

EPS-06 summary / MGB 060626

Conference opened with addresses by Ikeda: ITER Director

• Nuclear Engineering background, then diplomatic assignments

• First heard of fusion when JT-60 started

– He was then surprised by projected cost of fusion power

• Believes great progress has been made: ready for step to ITER

• 35 year timescale (10 construction, 20 operation, 5 decommissioning)

– He is 60

• Appreciates frustrations about site selection

• Needs approval of legal entity next year to start employing people

– Hopes this can be achieved in 2007

• Expects ~200 professional, 300 support staff during construction

– Now about 30 on site at Cadarache

• Negotiations with French nuclear regulators have started

– Environmental review and public debate process also starting

• See: www.iter.org/presentations/ikeda/EPC.ppt

EPS-06 summary / MGB 060626

Alfvén Prize awarded to Paul-Henri Rebut

• Reviewed step to JET– Size, 0.3 – 7 MA, D-shaped– Success based on sturdiness and

adequate technical margins– Responsible organization: JJU

• Present organization is flawed– By implication ITER also

– JET could improve by factor 2• ITER

– Absolute performance is paramount: it has no margin– Superconducting design is premature; simplify everything

• He favors a bigger copper machine– H-mode not steady-state; power threshold & ELM problem

– An “X-point limiter” (as early JET) better than a divertor: x1.5 PDT

– How can we finance the steps to a fusion reactor given ITER?– He favors fusion/fission hybrid

EPS-06 summary / MGB 060626

Outstanding extra-curricula discussions organized