Report on the 9th European fusion physics workshop

• The 9th EFPW took place in December 2001 at Saariselka in Finland, hosted by the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and the Helsinki University, and sponsored by the European Commission. Within an overall theme of 'transient events, their mitigation and their implications for plasma facing components in ITER', four topics of importance to the future development of magnetically confined fusion were discussed in detail. In addition, the key issues for the ITER design which are associated with transient events and a review of the JET scientific and technical programme under EFDA were presented. The main issues discussed and the areas identified as requiring further study are summarized here.

Keyword

Control systems

Electric currents

Electric resistance

Mathematical models

Plasma density

Real time systems

Tokamak devices

Fusion physics

Plasma confinement

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