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Announcements Director’s Corner C.M. GreenfieldAnnouncements for APS-DPP Community Planning Program Contact and Contribution Information
Director’s
Corner By C.M. Greenfield
Research in Support of ITER contributed
oral session at the Fort Lauderdale APS-DPP Conference
As promised, the agenda for the
USBPO-organized “Research in Support of ITER†contributed oral session, to be
held as part of the annual APS-DPP conference, is below. This will be the twelfth
consecutive year for this session, and we were once again pleased with response.
Paring the session down to 15 talks was a very challenging process, and I am
sorry we couldn’t include all of the excellent submissions.
Joyeeta Sinha (ITER) |
Synthetic Diagnostics for ITER First Plasma Operation |
Emilia
Solano (CIEMAT) |
Helium
L-H Transition Threshold Studies in JET-ILW |
Nikolas Logan (PPPL) |
Multi-Machine Scalings of N=1 and N=2 Error Field Correction |
Baonian
Wan (ASIPP) |
ELM
Solutions Developed in EAST Towards ITER Steady-State Scenario |
Darin Ernst (MIT) |
Favorable Core and Pedestal Transport Properties of the Wide
Pedestal QH-Mode Regime for Burning Plasmas |
Xuqiao
Xu (LLNL) |
On
the Divertor Heat Flux Width Scaling |
Cristina Rea (MIT) |
Disruption Prediction Using Random Forest on EAST And DIII-D |
Daisuke
Shiraki (ORNL) |
Measurement
and Modeling of Shattered Pellet Assimilation in DIII-D |
Andrey Lvovskiy (ORAU) |
Runaway Electron Beam Dynamics in DIII-D: Energy Distribution,
Current Profile, and RE-Driven Instabilities |
Annika
Ekedahl (CEA) |
First
Long Pulse Experiments With the Actively Cooled W-Divertor in WEST |
Igor Bykov (UCSD) |
Metal vs. Graphite Divertor: Effect of Material Choice on
Intrinsic Fuel Source |
Jae-Sun
Park (ITER) |
Assessment
of ITER W Divertor Performance During Early Operation Phases |
Aaron Sontag (ORNL) |
SOLPS Modeling of Neutral Effects on Pedestal Structure During
Pellet Fueling |
Saskia
Mordijck (William and Mary) |
Overview
on Density Pedestal Structure: Role of Fueling Versus Transport |
Joseph McClenaghan (GA) |
Density Fueling Needs on ITER and Future Tokamak Burning Plasma
Devices |
Progress at ITER
During the last few years, several
people have remarked to me that ITER didn’t seem “real†to them until they had
occasion to visit. I understand this; every time I visit I am amazed by both
the progress made and the scale of it, which dwarfs every fusion research
facility currently in operation. I wish I had a way to send every fusion
researcher in the US to visit ITER, but I don’t. But the ITER Organization has
just posted a new “ITER Drone Video†(from June 2019) that may help you see
just how real it is. The video is posted at https://www.iter.org/news/videos/470.
Even if you’ve been there, things change at the ITER site very quickly, and I
urge you to take a look at what’s new.
(Left) The now-completed cryostat base
will remain in the Cryostat Workshop until it is installed in the Tokamak
Building at the beginning of tokamak assembly in March 2020. (Right) The entire
cryostat will consist of four sections (base, lower cylinder, upper cylinder,
and lid) and enclose the entire tokamak. The base and lower cylinder are now
complete. (Images courtesy of ITER Organization)
Actually, there is one “error†in the
video. It indicates work is in progress on the 1250 metric ton cryostat base,
but since the video was made, the base was completed by the Indian domestic
agency and has been accepted by the ITER Organization.
In fact, it was announced last week
that the project has reached 65% completion toward first plasma. The tokamak
building is nearing completion, with the concrete finished and only the steel
components at the top of the building yet to be added. Assembly of the tokamak
itself will commence in March 2020, when the cryostat base is craned into the
put.
Announcements for APS-DPP Community Planning Process
Contributed
by N. Ferraro
The first MFE/FM&T Community
Planning Workshop was held in Madison, WI on July 22—26. The goal of this
workshop was for the community to present, discuss, and evaluate proposals for
strategic initiatives for FES. The workshop featured plenary talks,
numerous expert group breakout sessions to evaluate and discuss proposals, and
additional breakout sessions to examine cross-cutting opportunities across FES.
The full agenda, including slides from presentations and minutes of the
discussion sessions, can be found at the DPP-CPP website: https://sites.google.com/pppl.gov/dpp-cpp . There was excellent community
engagement, with over 170 MFE and FM&T registrants. There was also
productive interaction with the Discovery Plasma Science (DPS) topical area of
the DPP-CPP, which held their own workshop from July 23—25 co-located with the
MFE/FM&T workshop.
The second MFE/FM&T workshop will
be held on November 18—22 in Knoxville, TN. We expect the conference
website to be launched later this month, and will make an announcement when
this is available. The intent of this workshop is to resolve large outstanding
programmatic questions and to converge on a strategic plan for MFE/FM&T.
Much work remains to be done between
now and the second workshop. Expert group evaluations of initiatives
submitted before the July 1 deadline will be posted by the end of
August. The DPP-CPP program committee will also provide guidance to the
broader community regarding which scientific and technological gaps were not
adequately addressed by the first round of initiative proposals, and will
encourage new initiatives to address these. Furthermore, we strongly encourage
advocacy groups to begin working together to merge and combine proposals having
similar or related scope to form broader and stronger strategic elements.
Detailed plans and deadlines for the
DPP-CPP will be crystalizing over the coming weeks, and we will continue to
send updates and announcements as these details become known.
2019
August
5-7 |
Princeton,
NJ |
|
August
19-21 |
17th International
Workshop on Plasma Edge Theory in Fusion Devices |
UCSD, CA |
September 3-6 |
16th IAEA Technical
Meeting on Energetic Particles – Theory of Plasma Instabilities |
Shizuoka
City, Japan |
September 9-11 |
ITPA
Energetic Particles meeting |
Toki, Japan |
September 9-11 |
10th IAEA Technical
Meeting on Steady State Operation of Magnetic Fusion Devices |
Hefei,
China |
Sept 30 – Oct 3 |
6th International
Symposium on Liquid Metals Applications for Fusion (ISLA-6) |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, IL |
October 7-11 |
ITPA
Diagnostics meeting |
ITER HQ, France |
October 9-11 |
Shanghai, China |
|
October 14-16 |
Hefei, China |
|
October 14-17 |
ITPA
Transport & Confinement meeting |
Hefei, China |
October 14-17 |
ITPA
Integrated Operations Scenarios meeting |
Garching, Germany |
October 14-17 |
ITPA MHD Disruptions
and Control meeting |
Garching, Germany |
October 21-25 |
Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
|
Oct 27 – Nov 1 |
La Jolla, CA |
|
October 28-30 |
Columbia University, New York |
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November 4-7 |
IAEA HQ, Vienna, Austria |
|
November 4-8 |
Asia-Pacific DPP (AAPPS-DPP) |
Hefei, China |
December 3-4 |
40th
Fusion Power Associates (FPA) Annual Meeting and Symposium |
Washington DC |
December 10-12 |
ITPA
Coordinating Committee |
ITER
HQ |
2020
JET DT-campaign (/resources/ref/Web_Seminars/Litaudon-JET-%202019-05-02-vf.pdf) |
JT60-SA First Plasma (http://jt60sa.org/) |
Editor: Walter Guttenfelder (wgutten@pppl.gov)