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
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