European tour of the 2024 JT-60SA school

9 Mar 2025, 00:00 → 16 Mar 2025, 23:59 Europe/Berlin

Monday 10 March

08:30 → 09:00 Travel: Travel to institute

08:30 U6 underground to Garching Forschungszentrum

Public transportation website; https://efa.mvv-muenchen.de/index.html#trip@enquiry

U6 underground (U-Bahn) from Garching to Garching Forschungszentrum
- 1 stop, travel time: 3 minutes
- single ticket (2 EUR) or 1 strip (10 stripes on "Streifenkarte")

Time table;
8.30, 8.36, 8.40, 8.46, 8.50,...

09:00 → 11:30 Visit: Visit of Garching Campus (EUROfusion, IPP, F4E)

09:00 Welcome

09:10 Overview of the EUROfusion Science Department

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.

Speaker: Marco Wischmeier (EUROfusion PMU)

10:00 Overview of the EUROfusion Technology Activities

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 and coordinating the VNS and DEMO design.

Speakers: Joelle Elbez-Uzan (DCT), Mattia Siccinio (EUROfusion)

12:00 → 13:00 Food: Lunch

12:00 Lunch at Goldbraun

Burgers and salads
Website: https://goldbraun.de
Address: Walther-van-Dyck-Straße 4, 85748 Garching bei München
Phone: +49- 89 360 894 15
Email: garching@goldbraun.de

13:00 → 16:30 Visit: Visit of ASDEX Upgrade, BATMAN Upgrade and ELISE

13:00 Visit of the negative NBI test facilities ELISE and BATMAN Upgrade

Speakers: Christian Wimmer (IPP), Dirk Wuenderlich (IPP)

14:00 Presentation and tour of ASDEX Upgrade

Speakers: Irene Zammuto (IPP), Markus Teschke (IPP)

16:00 Presentation on the EUROfusion Fusion Technology Transfer Projects

Fusion Technology Transfer success stories: https://fusion-technology-transfer.europa.eu/success-stories/

17:00 → 17:30 Travel: Travel to Garching

17:00 U6 underground to Garching

Public transportation website; https://efa.mvv-muenchen.de/index.html#trip@enquiry

U6 underground (U-Bahn) from Garching to Garching Forschungszentrum
- 1 stop, travel time: 2 minutes
- single ticket (2 EUR) or 1 strip

Time table;
17.00, 17.06, 17.10, 17.16, 17.20, 17.26, 17.30, ..

18:00 → 20:00 Food: Dinner at Garchinger Augustiner

18:00 Dinner at the Garchinger Augustiner

German restaurant and Biergarten
Website: http://www.garchinger-augustiner.com
Menu: http://www.garchinger-augustiner.com/Österreichwochen%20Januar%202025%20web.pdf (scroll down for English)

Address: Freisinger Landstraße 4, 85748 Garching b. München
Phone: +49-89 20 966 739
Email: info@garchinger-augustiner.com

Tuesday 11 March

08:30 → 09:00 Travel: Travel to institute

08:30 U6 underground to Garching Forschungszentrum

Public transportation website; https://efa.mvv-muenchen.de/index.html#trip@enquiry

U6 underground (U-Bahn) from Garching to Garching Forschungszentrum
- 1 stop, travel time: 3 minutes
- single ticket (2 EUR) or 1 strip

Time table;
8.30, 8.36, 8.40, 8.46, 8.50,

09:00 → 11:30 Visit: EUROfusion Technology Department

09:00 Welcome by the EUROfusion Programme Manager

Speaker: Gianfranco Federici

09:10 Group work on Fusion Technology Transfer

Please work in groups of 3-4 and propose an idea for a fusion technology transfer project.
Present your idea in max. 5 minutes at 10.00.

Speakers: Duarte Borba (EUROfusion), Fabio Vinagre (EUROfusion)

10:30 Fusion for Energy

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) and Cadarache.

Website: https://fusionforenergy.europa.eu

Speakers: Francesca Fantini (F4E), Valerio Tomarchio

11:30 → 12:30 Food: Lunch at the institute

11:30 Lunch at the IPP canteen

Menu is provided one week in advance, and includes a meat-dish, vegetarian dish and a salad. Other options include the bakery with sandwiches, pastry and salads, as well as a Chinese and Turkish kiosk in front of the institute.

12:30 → 13:30 Travel: Travel back to the hotel

12:30 U6 underground to Garching - back to the hotel

Public transportation website; https://efa.mvv-muenchen.de/index.html#trip@enquiry

U6 underground (U-Bahn) from Garching to Garching Forschungszentrum
- 1 stop, travel time: 2 minutes
- single ticket (2 EUR) or 1 strip

Time table;
12.36, 12.38, 12.46, 12.56, 12.58

Wednesday 12 March

09:00 → 11:30 Visit: CEA programme

09:00 Pick-up at the Château by bus chartered by the CEA

09:15 Formalities for badges at the entrance gate of CEA

09:30 Presentation on the WEST programme

1/2h presentation about what is WEST and its programme
1/4h Q&A:

10:20 Visit of the WEST facilities

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 30 minutes, the groups will switch.

o 10h20 – 10h50
Groupe 1 : control room with session leader / models
Groupe 2 : programme with a Task force Leader

o 10h50 – 11h20
Groupe 2 : control room with session leader / models
Groupe 1 : programme with a Task force Leader

11:20 Return to the Chateau by bus CEA

11:40 → 12:00 Travel: Chartered car from the Chateau to ITER

12:15 → 17:30 Visit: ITER programme

12:15 Welcome at ITER Reception C – Entrance formalities and transfer to Head Quarter

12:30 Food: Lunch at the ITER canteen with Japanese IO staff

13:30 Informal meeting with Japanese staff

14:00 Meet and Greet with the ITER Director General

14:10 Presentation of ITER project

15:10 Preparation of Protective equipment

15:20 Tour of the ITER worksite

Website: https://www.iter.org

16:20 Return of Protective Equipment

16:30 Workshop with the ITER staff

17:20 Return of ITER badges – End of visit

18:00 → 18:20 Travel: Chartered car from ITER to the Chateau

18:30 → 19:30 Food: Dinner at the Chateau De Cadarache

18:30 Dinner

38,39€ pr. person :

Starter : Shredded duck confit
Main dish : Fillet of sea bass with Escabeche sauce
Dessert : Chocolat and almond cake
Water/wine/coffée included

Friday 14 March

09:00 → 10:00 Travel: Travel to Culham

09:00 Train from Oxford station to Culham station

Train website: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/journey-planner
Return ticket from 6.50 GBP
2nd station, journey takes 10-11 minutes + 15 minutes to walk from Culham station to the UKAEA gate.

Time table:
9.04, 9.34

10:00 → 16:30 Visit: UKAEA programme

10:00 Arrive at the reception of UKAEA

Contact Chris Warrick, UKAEA student placement and outreach manager.
Welcome and coffee in the Burford Room (C7 first floor) with Chris Warrick.

Speaker: Chris Warrick

10:15 Introduction to UKAEA and the UK fusion programme

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

Speaker: Chris Warrick (UKAEA)

10:45 Fusion 301 : future tokamaks (power plants)

Lecturer: William Morris (UKAEA Chief Scientist)

Speaker: William Morris (CCFE)

11:30 Tour of MAST Upgrade

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/

12:00 Tour of the RACE robotics centre

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

12:30 Tour of the MRF material research facility

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

13:00 Lunch

Lunch with UKAEA tour guides.

14:00 Tour of JET (torus hall, assembly hall, remote handling, control room)

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/

14:45 JET control room exercise

15:30 Discussion with UK scientists on the JET DT campaigns

Speakers: Fernanda Rimini (CCFE), Joelle Mailloux (UKAEA)

16:15 Q&A and departure

Speaker: Chris Warrick (UKAEA)

16:30 → 17:30 Travel: Travel back to Oxford

16:30 Train from Culham station to Oxford station

Train website: https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/journey-planner
Return ticket from 6.50 GBP
15 minutes to walk from UKAEA gate to Culham station
2nd station, journey takes 10-11 minutes

Time table:
16.40, 17.11, 17.40, 18.05