32nd European Fusion Programme Workshop

28 Jan 2025, 08:30 → 30 Jan 2025, 13:00 Europe/Berlin

The 32^nd European Fusion Programme Workshop (EFPW32) will take place in Granada, Spain, at the Hotel Luna, from 28^th January 2025 to 30^th January 2025 with the possibility of Video Conference. 

The title of the workshop is “Nuclear technology and nuclear physics for fusion power plants”.

The STAC has agreed on the following session topics:

• Material testing and qualification
• Fuel Cycle and Breeding Blanket
• Fusion reactor life-cycle and safety
• Towards fusion power plants

 

Provisional agenda is provided subject to changes by STAC. 

Registration: (1) the session chairs, (2) the speakers, and (3) participants representing collective activities, must be nominated, unless they are a member of a PMU, EC or F4E, in which case they should be nominated by the Programme Manager, European Commission or F4E Director. 

Nominations are open until Friday, 15 November 2024. 

Tuesday 28 January

08:30 → 09:00 STAC: Welcome and Introduction

08:30 Welcome and scope of the meeting

Speaker: Fabio Villone (ENEA_Frascati)

08:40 Introduction and welcome by the local organizers

Speaker: Angel Ibarra (CIEMAT)

08:45 Presentation of DONES

Speaker: Philippe Cara (Fusion for Energy)

09:00 → 10:10 Material testing and qualification: Part 1

Convener: Teresa Estrada (CIEMAT)

09:00 Session Introduction

Speaker: Konstantina Mergia (National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”)

09:05 Development of Material Database and Material Property Handbook for EU DEMO

Speaker: Ermile Gaganidze (KIT)

09:40 Testing of baseline structural materials: neutron irradiation effects

Speaker: Dmitry Terentyev (SCKCEN)

10:40 → 12:50 Material testing and qualification: Part 2

Convener: Konstantina Mergia (National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”)

10:40 Testing and qualification of first wall components

Speaker: Christian Linsmeier (FZJ)

11:10 Multiscale modelling towards material qualification

Speaker: Sergei Dudarev (UKAEA)

11:40 DONES contribution towards material testing and qualification

Speaker: Angel Ibarra (CIEMAT)

12:10 Discussion

14:30 → 16:20 Fuel Cycle and Breeding Blanket: Part 1

Convener: David Tskhakaya (IPP-CR)

14:30 Session Introduction

Speaker: David Tskhakaya (IPP-CR)

14:35 Overview DEMO Fuel Cycle

Speaker: Thomas Giegerich (KIT)

15:15 Tritium Modelling and Release in Fusion Fuel Cycle: Ensuring Safety and Fuel Self-sufficiency

Speaker: Carlos Moreno (CIEMAT)

15:45 Tritium challenges for operation of fusion reactors (availability, self-sufficiency, tritium management),

Speaker: Matti Coleman (on behalf of UKAEA)

16:50 → 18:30 Fuel Cycle and Breeding Blanket: Part 2

Convener: Elisabeth Wolfrum (IPP)

16:50 JET Tritium & Remote Maintenance experience

Speakers: Nicholas Sykes (UKAEA), Richard Walker (UKAEA)

17:20 ITER Tritium availability, plant and Tritium Breeding Module Programme

Speaker: Ian Bonnett (ITER Organization)

17:50 Discussion

Wednesday 29 January

08:30 → 10:20 Fuel Cycle and Breeding Blanket: Part 3

Convener: Yevgen Kazakov (LPP-ERM/KMS, Brussels, Belgium)

08:30 Session Introduction

Speaker: Yevgen Kazakov (LPP-ERM/KMS, Brussels, Belgium)

08:35 Overview DEMO Breeding Blanket System Designs (including Remote Maintenance)

Speaker: Pietro Arena (ENEA)

09:15 Breeding blanket qualification

Speaker: Salvatore D'Amico (EUROfusion PMU)

09:45 Breeding Blanket technological readiness of Tokamaks and Stellarators

Speaker: Iole Palermo (CIEMAT)

10:50 → 12:35 Fuel Cycle and Breeding Blanket: Part 4

Convener: Dieter Leichtle (KIT)

10:50 Outcome of VNS feasibility study

Speaker: Gianfranco Federici (EUROfusion)

11:25 Breeding blanket mock-up testing in DONES

Speaker: David Rapisarda (CIEMAT)

11:55 Discussion

14:30 → 15:55 Fusion reactor life-cycle and safety: Part 1

Convener: Christian Grisolia (CEA)

14:30 Session Introduction

Speaker: Dieter Leichtle (KIT)

14:35 Radiation safety

(Remote)

Speaker: Subhash Puthanveetil (ITER Organisation)

15:05 Neutronics and activation at JET and DEMO

Speakers: Pavel Pereslavtsev (EUROfusion), Rosaria Villari (ENEA Frascati)

15:35 Radiation waste management

Speaker: Sandrine Rosanvallon (CEA)

16:25 → 17:45 Fusion reactor life-cycle and safety: Part 2

Convener: Kai Nordlund (University of Helsinki)

16:25 ITER Hot Cell Facility

Speaker: Peggy Mampaey (ITER Organization)

16:45 JET decommissioning and radiation waste

Speaker: Rob Buckingham (UKAEA)

17:05 Discussion

Thursday 30 January

08:30 → 10:10 Towards Fusion Power Plants: Part 1

Convener: Costanza Maggi (UKAEA)

08:30 Session Introduction

Speaker: Costanza Maggi (UKAEA)

08:35 Licencing of Fusion Power Plants

Speaker: Joelle Elbez-Uzan (DCT)

09:05 Fission vs fusion licencing contrast

Speaker: Markus Airila (VTT)

09:35 Industrial readiness based on ITER experience

Speaker: Marc Lachaise (Fusion for Energy)

10:40 → 12:30 Towards Fusion Power Plants: Part 2

Convener: Thomas Klinger (IPP)

10:40 Public-Private partnerships in the fusion sector towards Fusion Power Plants

Speaker: Alessandro Dodaro (ENEA)

11:15 Bird's eye view on world-wide strategies towards Fusion Power Plants

Speaker: David Maisonnier (CEC)

11:50 General discussion

12:30 → 12:40 STAC: Closing

Convener: Fabio Villone (ENEA_Frascati)