European tour of the 2024 JT-60SA school

Session

Visit

10 Mar 2025, 09:00

7. Welcome

10/03/2025, 09:00

8. Overview of the EUROfusion Science Department

10/03/2025, 09:10

EUROfusion coordinates the research and development activities across Europe in 26 countries of the European Union and 3 partners (United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway).
The EUROfusion Plasma Science Department coordinates the scientific exploitation and research activities across the European devices (MAST-U, TCV, WEST, ASDEX Upgrade, Wendelstein-7X) as well as JT-60SA.

10. Coffee break with meet and greet

10/03/2025, 10:00

9. Fusion for Energy

10/03/2025, 10:30

Fusion for Energy (F4E) is the European domestic agency of ITER. In addition, F4E is the European Implementing Agency who together with our Japanese implementing agency QST manages the Broader Approach Agreement including IFMIF EVEDA (Rokkasho site), JT-60SA (Naka-site) and the IFERC supercomputer.
F4E has 3 sites, Garching (mainly Broader Approach projects), Barcelona (mainly ITER projects)...

16. Overview of the EUROfusion Technology Activities

11/03/2025, 09:00

EUROfusion coordinates the research and development activities across Europe in 26 countries of the European Union and 3 partners (United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway).
The EUROfusion Technology Departments overview the technology developments for fusion with particular focus to the European DEMO and VNS devices. Garching is the home to the DEMO central team, around 30 engineers working on...

17. Group work on VNS requirements

11/03/2025, 10:00

35. Presentation on WEST tokamak and the CEA research programme

12/03/2025, 09:00

IRFM is an institute of CEA, the French Alternatives Energies and Atomic Energy Commission. Located in the CEA Cadarache Centre, with ITER next door, the 200+ physicists, engineers and technicians of the Institute carry out research on Magnetic Fusion as a potential future energy source. The Cadarache site is the host of the WEST superconducting tokamak that recently reached the world record...

36. Tour of the WEST tokamak and control room

12/03/2025, 10:00

Visit of the WEST control room in 2 groups. One group will get a tour from an expert in WEST operations, and the second group will get a tour by a task force leader (equivalent to the Experiment Team leaders) of the WEST programme. After 20-30 minutes, the groups will switch. Visit of the WEST torus hall is to be confirmed.

37. Meet and Greet with the ITER Director General

12/03/2025, 14:00

38. Tour of the ITER worksite

12/03/2025, 14:10

Website: https://www.iter.org

39. Workshop with the ITER staff (to be confirmed)

12/03/2025, 15:30

25. Welcome at UKAEA

14/03/2025, 10:00

26. Overview of the UK Fusion Programme

14/03/2025, 10:15

Towards Fusion Energy 2023 - UK's fusion strategy: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/65301b78d06662000d1b7d0f/towards-fusion-energy-strategy-2023-update.pdf

27. Future of tokamaks lecture

14/03/2025, 10:45

28. Tour of MAST Upgrade

14/03/2025, 11:30

The Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade is the UK's national fusion experiment. MAST-U is a spherical tokamak primarily focuses on plasma exhaust with its Super-X divertor and test technology innovations for a compact tokamak design on route to STEP.

Website: https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/programmes/mast-upgrade/

29. Tour of the RACE robotics centre

14/03/2025, 12:00

Remote Applications in Challenging Environments (RACE) is an institute of UKAEA on their Culham campus. They design, build and operate robotics for extreme industrial environments, working towards the goal: bringing fusion energy to the grid. The activities include remote handling of JET and future fusion reactors.

Website: https://race.ukaea.uk

30. Tour of the MRF material research facility

14/03/2025, 12:30

UKAEA’s Materials Research Facility (MRF) prepares and examines samples of active materials to assess their performance in fusion reactors. MRF is part of the UK Government’s National Nuclear User Facility and the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials.

Website: https://mrf.ukaea.uk

31. Lunch and networking

14/03/2025, 13:00

32. Tour of JET (torus hall, assembly hall, remote handling, control room)

14/03/2025, 14:00

The Joint European Torus (JET) was the world's largest and most advanced tokamak funded by the European Commission, exploited by the European fusion community under EUROfusion and hosted by UKAEA on the Culham site.

Website:
https://euro-fusion.org/devices/jet/
https://ccfe.ukaea.uk/programmes/joint-european-torus/

33. JET control room exercise (to be confirmed)

14/03/2025, 14:30

34. Discussion with UK scientists on the JET DT campaigns

14/03/2025, 15:30