General FSD Management meeting

Name: General FSD Management meeting
Start: 2026-09-08T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-08T12:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Tuesday 8 Sept 2026, 10:30 → 12:00 Europe/Berlin

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General:

FP10 Working Group Update, including possible future discussions on inertial confinement depending on the yet to be presented European Commission Strategy document.
SNE letters sent to F4E
News items:

Databases are now available on the new gateway. [It was confirmed after the meeting that the responsible officers remained the same as under PrIO]

WPTE:

TCV and WEST are in operation
TCV Heating limited (1 NBI + 1 Gyrotron); plan for second NBI to be back online in November.
AUG and MAST-U on engineering break; ASDEX to restart plasma operations in November.
Review meeting on 22nd and 25^th of September; call for participation to EU devices planned for November (GPM tentatively scheduled for calendar week 46).
EUROfusion call for JT-60SA OP2 participation to be released around October.

WPPWIE

JET sample transport to Romania blocked at customs due to a longer-than-expected list of radioactive elements; samples returned to UK.
Most JET tiles are below critical levels for large transport containers; only one tile requires large containers.
ITER expressed strong interest in EUROfusion’s experience transporting nuclear materials, for their own safety case and hot cell minimization planning. A Lessons Learned report is being prepared.
Many ITPEA presentations (next week) from the PWIE program.
A joint TE-PWI half-day workshop on tungsten sources, influxes, and migration is being tentatively planned for October.

WPSTEL:

First week of commissioning successful: pellet injection with improved confinement, higher temperatures, stable operation, ICRH working well following improvements made between campaigns.
Issue regarding 30k€ mission funds to be escalated.

WPTM:

Xavier is attending the IMEG meeting at ITER (3 days); Frank and Denis attending remotely.
Update on TSVVs and most have planned their general workshops for the year.
ACH training invitation received (end of September/early November); will cover IMAS, gateway access, and long-term data storage. Gloria to attend personally.
Planning for 2027 resource review will begin in upcoming meetings.

WPSA:

Installation of divertor VUV spectrometer and Thomson scattering diagnostics mostly complete.
Calibration time for diagnostics is critically short; validation may extend into or after the campaign.
Divertor cryo-pump and two MGIs are installed; MGI commissioning plan not yet available.
Remote access/maintenance for hardware systems is formally agreed but implementation is slow.
Experimental campaign confirmed until June.
Next technical coordination meeting scheduled for mid-November (16/11-20/11) in Naka.
WPSA task monitoring meeting planned for end of September/October.
Pellet system tender ongoing; TPCI (EPFL) sending last component before end of month.
Growing demand for real-time control expertise at JT-60SA and planning for future contributions. There are already ongoing activities on this topic led by EPFL and CREATE.

AOB

Next meeting to include updates from the bureau on reserve list budget and SNE status

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